This book subjects the works of Elizabeth Spencer, critically acclaimed but canonically marginalized, to a study that reveals their interaction with the southern canon as they question its boundaries and remap the long-established landscapes of southern identity.

Introduction: Backward Glances and Forward Thinking: Reconsidering Elizabeth Spencer 'A Sure Terrain': Spencer's Mississippi Novels Exploding the Can(n)on: The South as 'Another County' Inhabiting the Unhomely Moment in Jack of Diamonds and Other Stories 'Radical' Re-Envisionings of Home: The Night Travellers