The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Dark Romance Dill bears witness to the

Dill bears witness to the river

” —Fernando A

she's no longer sure what--and who--to believe

moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon

The soft city must consider the organization and layout of the built environment for more fluid movement and comfort

The Bad Poor: Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine (Series edited by) Dark Romance Dill bears witness to theThe Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and shaped by reckoning with the legacies of whiteness and