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Remapping Southern Literature
Contemporary Southern Writers and the West
Häftad, 2007
476 kr
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One of the most significant and surprising developments in contemporary southern fiction is that an increasing number of southern writers are writing about the American West. In Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West, Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. studies current …
Southern Folk, Plain & Fancy
Native White Social Types
Häftad, 1988
398 kr
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Creating a sort of periodic table of the southern populace, Southern Folk, Plain and Fancy catalogs and describes the several social types—gentleman and lady, "lord of the lash" and cunning belle, fun-loving "good old boy," depraved redneck, and other figures—that have animated the region since …
Southern Writer in the Postmodern World
Av Fred Hobson
Inbunden, 1991
2705 kr
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In The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World Fred Hobson offers a witty and engaging "preliminary estimate" of some of the most prominent new figures in southern fiction. Although he discovers no shortage of talent, he does find "various and conflicting attitudes toward the south and the …
Daughters of Time
Creating Woman's Voice in Southern Story
Häftad, 1992
476 kr
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Drawing upon letters, autobiographies, and novels, Daughters of Time examines the strategies that various southern women writers have used to create their own "voice," their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. Lucinda H. MacKethan shows that, despite the constraining and muting effects of …
Power of the Porch
The Storyteller's Craft in Zora Neale Hurston, Gloria Naylor, and Randall Kenan
Inbunden, 1997
679 kr
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Southern literature is often celebrated for its "told," rather than "written," qualities. Drawing on her own experiences of front-porch storytelling among family, friends, and neighbors, Trudier Harris looks across the generations of twentieth-century southern writers to focus on three African …
Teaching Equality
Black Schools in the Age of Jim Crow
Inbunden, 2001
443 kr
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In Teaching Equality, Adam Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States. Beginning with the close of the Civil War, when “the efforts of the slave regime to prevent black literacy meant that blacks …
George Washington and the American Military Tradition
Häftad, 2004
426 kr
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In George Washington and the American Military Tradition, Don Higginbotham investigates the interplay of militiaman and professional soldier, of soldier and legislator, that shaped George Washington’s military career and ultimately fostered the victory that brought independence to our nation. …
Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity
Inbunden, 2005
535 kr
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The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. The recent fiftieth anniversary of Brown prompted a surge of tributes: books, television and radio specials, conferences, and speeches. At the same time, says James C. …
Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers
Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music
Häftad, 2003
410 kr
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In this slim, lively book our foremost historian of country music recalls the lost worlds of pioneering fiddlers and pickers, balladeers and yodelers. As he looks at "hillbilly" music's pre-commercial era and its early popular growth through radio and recordings, Bill C. Malone shows us that it was …
Mixed Blood Indians
Racial Construction in the Early South
Av Theda Perdue
Häftad, 2005
410 kr
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On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men—including traders, soldiers, and government agents—sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions were known by whites as "half-breeds." The Indian societies into which they were born, however, had no …
Hammers of Creation
Folk Culture in Modern African-American Fiction
Häftad, 2006
476 kr
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In The Hammers of Creation, Eric J. Sundquist analyzes the powerful role played by folk culture in three major African-American novels of the early twentieth century: James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, and Arna Bontemps's Black …
Henry Adams and the Southern Question
Häftad, 2007
487 kr
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“Strictly, the Southerner had no mind; he had temperament. He was not a scholar; he had no intellectual training; he could not analyze an idea, and he could not even conceive of admitting two.” This judgment, rendered in The Education of Henry Adams, may be the most quoted of Adams’s writings on …
Web of Words
The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature
Av Richard Gray
Inbunden, 2007
1078 kr
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Richard Gray is known as both a leading European scholar in American literature and a leading international scholar of the literature of the American South. Through numerous examples drawn from southern literature, a historically conscious body of writing clearly in conversation with itself, Gray …
Language of the American South
Häftad, 2007
401 kr
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In this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. He writes of the language's unique syntax and its celebrated languorous rhythms; of the classical allusions and Addisonian locutions once favored by the gentry; and of the more earthbound eloquence, …
South and the North in American Religion
Häftad, 2007
414 kr
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In this comparative history of religious life in the South and the North, Samuel Hill considers the religions of America from a unique angle. Tracing the religious history of both areas, this study dramatically shows how a common religion was altered by hostilities and then continued to develop as …
Possum and Other Receipts for the Recovery of "Southern" Being
Häftad, 2008
476 kr
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In this volume, Marion Montgomery ponders two very different varieties of possum as the starting point for a literary, philosophical, and poetic inquiry into the nature of Southernness. The first possum is the familiar marsupial, native to the American South, in whose modest status can be seen an …
Chattel Slavery and Wage Slavery
The Anglo-American Context, 1830-1860
Häftad, 2008
426 kr
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This book begins with a provocative paradox: George Fitzhugh of Virginia, one of the most eloquent defenders of Southern chattel slavery, appealed to a New York abolitionist for support. How can this be? The abolitionist in question, Charles Edwards Lester, had confessed that "he would sooner …
Consuming Fire
The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South
Häftad, 2009
430 kr
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The fall of the Confederacy proved traumatic for a people who fought with the belief that God was on their side. Yet, as Eugene D. Genovese writes in A Consuming Fire, Southern Christians continued to trust in the Lord's will. The churches had long defended "southern rights" and insisted upon the …
Three Modes of Modern Southern Fiction
Ellen Glasgow, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe
Häftad, 2008
476 kr
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Within the general region designated as "The South," there are three societies only shadowily defined at their outer limits but distinct and sharp at their centers. In these essays C. Hugh Holman suggests ways in which race, geography, climate, and religion have contributed to the formation of …
Waking Their Neighbors Up
The Nashville Agrarians Rediscovered
Häftad, 2010
457 kr
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Stung by attacks upon the South following the celebrated Scopes “monkey trial” in the 1920s, some of the poets comprising the Fugitive group at Vanderbilt University—notably John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren— conceived the idea of a symposium that would argue …
Edgar Allan Poe As Literary Critic
Häftad, 2010
476 kr
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Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first major critics to develop and refine his critical theories through magazine articles and book reviews. Edgar Allan Poe as Literary Critic focuses on his interest in establishing an aesthetic for magazine literature, and Parks has examined Poe’s criticism at …
Remembering Medgar Evers
Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement
Inbunden, 2013
1215 kr
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As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till’s murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in the back by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith …
Remembering Medgar Evers
Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement
Häftad, 2013
330 kr
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As the first NAACP field secretary for Mississippi, Medgar Wiley Evers put his life on the line to investigate racial crimes (including Emmett Till’s murder) and to organize boycotts and voter registration drives. On June 12, 1963, he was shot in the back by white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith …
Myths and Men
Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson
Av Bernard Mayo
Häftad, 2010
359 kr
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In the role of “historian-detective” Bernard Mayo presents in lecture form three case histories in hero-worship. These abundantly illustrate the uses and abuses of history, revealing how the flesh-and-blood men, humanly fallible yet with the inspiring qualities of greatness, have been distorted and …
Camille, 1969
Histories of a Hurricane
Inbunden, 2011
512 kr
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Thirty-six years before Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and southern Mississippi, the region was visited by one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the United States: Camille.Mark M. Smith offers three highly original histories of the storm’s impact in southern Mississippi. In the …
Southern Writers in the Modern World
Häftad, 2010
401 kr
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One of the most important of the Southern magazines in the 1920s was The Fugitive, a magazine of verse and brief commentaries on literature in general. Among its contributors were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Donald Davidson, and Merrill Moore. Publication began in April 1922 …
Becoming Confederates
Paths to a New National Loyalty
Inbunden, 2013
1038 kr
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In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early—three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many …
Becoming Confederates
Paths to a New National Loyalty
Häftad, 2013
646 kr
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In Becoming Confederates, Gary W. Gallagher explores loyalty in the era of the Civil War, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Early—three prominent officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Loyalty was tested and proved in many …
Moses, Jesus, and the Trickster in the Evangelical South
Av Paul Harvey
Häftad, 2013
430 kr
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Paul Harvey uses four characters that are important symbols of religious expression in the American South to survey major themes of religion, race, and southern history.The figure of Moses helps us better understand how whites saw themselves as a chosen people in situations of suffering and war and …
Late Encounter with the Civil War
Inbunden, 2014
1038 kr
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In A Late Encounter with the Civil War, Michael Kreyling confronts the changing nature of our relationship to the anniversary of the war that nearly split the United States. When significant anniversaries arrive in the histories of groups such as families, businesses, or nations, their members set …
