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Author : JOHN SHELTON. REED
Release : 1993
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Book Synopsis MY TEARS SPOILED MY AIM AND OTHER REFLECTIONS ON S. by : JOHN SHELTON. REED
Download or read book MY TEARS SPOILED MY AIM AND OTHER REFLECTIONS ON S. written by JOHN SHELTON. REED. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Shelton Reed
Release : 1993
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture by : John Shelton Reed
Download or read book My Tears Spoiled My Aim, and Other Reflections on Southern Culture written by John Shelton Reed. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Still the South.
Author : John Shelton Reed
Release : 1994
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis My Tears Spoiled My Aim by : John Shelton Reed
Download or read book My Tears Spoiled My Aim written by John Shelton Reed. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With characteristic tongue-in-cheek wit, Reed tackles the questions, Just what is "the South" today? Where is it? Why are Southerners so devoted to it? Instructional maps include "Where Kudzu Grows" and "States Mentioned in Country Music Lyrics."
Author : M. Thomas Inge
Release : 2014-02-01
Genre : Reference
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Book Synopsis The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by : M. Thomas Inge
Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture written by M. Thomas Inge. This book was released on 2014-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a comprehensive view of the South's literary landscape, past and present, this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture celebrates the region's ever-flourishing literary culture and recognizes the ongoing evolution of the southern literary canon. As new writers draw upon and reshape previous traditions, southern literature has broadened and deepened its connections not just to the American literary mainstream but also to world literatures--a development thoughtfully explored in the essays here. Greatly expanding the content of the literature section in the original Encyclopedia, this volume includes 31 thematic essays addressing major genres of literature; theoretical categories, such as regionalism, the southern gothic, and agrarianism; and themes in southern writing, such as food, religion, and sexuality. Most striking is the fivefold increase in the number of biographical entries, which introduce southern novelists, playwrights, poets, and critics. Special attention is given to contemporary writers and other individuals who have not been widely covered in previous scholarship.
Author : John Shelton Reed
Release : 2003
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Minding the South by : John Shelton Reed
Download or read book Minding the South written by John Shelton Reed. This book was released on 2003. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're in the American South now, a proud region with a distinctive history and culture. A place that echoes with names like Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee, Scarlett O'Hara and Uncle Remus, Martin Luther King and William Faulkner, Billy Graham, Mahalia Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley. Home of the country blues and country music, bluegrass and Dixieland jazz, gospel music and rock and roll. Where menus offer both down-home biscuits and gravy and uptown shrimp and grits. Where churches preach against "cigarettes, whiskey, and wild, wild women" (all Southern products) and where American football is a religion. For more than thirty years John Shelton Reed has been "minding" the South--watching over it, providing commentary upon it. He is the author or editor of thirteen books about the South, and despite his disclaimer regarding formal study of Southern history, Reed has read widely and in depth about the South. His primary focus is upon Southerners' present-day culture and consciousness, but he knows that one must approach the South historically in order to understand the place and its people. Why is the South so different from the rest of the country? Rupert Vance, Reed's predecessor in sociology at Chapel Hill, once observed that the very existence of the South is a triumph of history over geography and economics. The South has resisted being assimilated by the larger United States and has kept a personality that is distinctly its own.That is why Reed celebrates the South. His essays cover everything from great thinkers about the South--Eugene D. Genovese, C. Vann Woodward, M. E. Bradford--to the uniqueness of a region that was once a hotbed of racism, but has recently attracted hundreds of thousands of blacks transplanted from the North. There are even a few chapters about Southerners who have devoted their talents to different subjects altogether, from politics or soft drinks to rock and roll or the design of silver jewelry. Reed writes with wit and Southern charm, never afraid to speak his mind, even when it comes to taking his beloved South to task. While readers may not share all his opinions, most will agree that John Shelton Reed is one of the best "South watchers" there is.
