South to A New Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South to A New Place write by Suzanne W. Jones. This book was released on 2002-11-01. South to A New Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking Albert Murray’s South to a Very Old Place as a starting point, contributors to this exciting collection continue the work of critically and creatively remapping the South through their freewheeling studies of southern literature and culture. Appraising representations of the South within a context that is postmodern, diverse, widely inclusive, and international, the essays present multiple ways of imagining the South and examine both new places and old landscapes in an attempt to tie the mythic southern balloon down to earth. In his foreword, an insightful discussion of numerous Souths and the ways they are perceived, Richard Gray explains one of the key goals of the book: to open up to scrutiny the literary and cultural practice that has come to be known as “regionalism.” Part I, “Surveying the Territory,” theorizes definitions of place and region, and includes an analysis of southern literary regionalism from the 1930s to the present and an exploration of southern popular culture. In “Mapping the Region,” essayists examine different representations of rural landscapes and small towns, cities and suburbs, as well as liminal zones in which new immigrants make their homes. Reflecting the contributors’ transatlantic perspective, “Making Global Connections” challenges notions of southern distinctiveness by reading the region through the comparative frameworks of Southern Italy, East Germany, Latin America, and the United Kingdom and via a range of texts and contexts—from early reconciliation romances to Faulkner’s fictions about race to the more recent parody of southern mythmaking, Alice Randall’s The Wind Done Gone. Together, these essays explore the roles that economic, racial, and ideological tensions have played in the formation of southern identity through varying representations of locality, moving regionalism toward a “new place” in southern studies.
The New Mind of the South
The New Mind of the South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Mind of the South write by Tracy Thompson. This book was released on 2014-03-18. The New Mind of the South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thompson, a Georgia native, asserts that the South has drawn on its oldest tradition: an ability to adapt and transform itself. She spent years traveling through the region and discovered a South both amazingly similar and radically different from the land she knew as a child. The new South is ahead of others in absorbing waves of Latino immigrants, in rediscovering its agrarian traditions, in seeking racial reconciliation, and in reinventing what it means to have roots in an increasingly rootless global culture.
South to a Very Old Place
South to a Very Old Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South to a Very Old Place write by Albert Murray. This book was released on 2012-09-19. South to a Very Old Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The highly acclaimed novelist and biographer Albert Murray tells his classic memoir of growing up in Alabama during the 1920s and 1930s in South to a Very Old Place. Intermingling remembrances of youth with engaging conversation, African-American folklore, and astute cultural criticism, it is at once an intimate personal journey and an incisive social history, informed by "the poet's language, the novelist's sensibility, the essayist's clarity, the jazzman's imagination, the gospel singer's depth of feeling" (The New Yorker). "His perceptions are firmly based in the blues idiom, and it is black music no less than literary criticism and historical analysis that gives his work its authenticity, its emotional vigor and its tenacious hold on the intellect...[It] destroys some fashionable socio-political interpretations of growing up black."--Toni Morrison, The New York Times Book Review
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Memphis and the Paradox of Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memphis and the Paradox of Place write by Wanda Rushing. This book was released on 2009. Memphis and the Paradox of Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy--the site of Martin Luther
New Men, New Cities, New South
New Men, New Cities, New South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Men, New Cities, New South write by Don Harrison Doyle. This book was released on 1990-01-01. New Men, New Cities, New South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cities were the core of a changing economy and culture that penetrated the rural hinterland and remade the South in the decades following the Civil War. In New Men, New Cities, New South, Don Doyle argues that if the plantation was the world the sl
