Download or read book The Southern Reader and Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Modern Southern Reader written by Ben Forkner and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Major stories, drama, poetry, essays, interviews, and reminiscences from the 20th century South.
Download or read book The Southern Reader written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Southern Reader written by Willard Thorp and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology that looks at various aspects of life in the South.
Download or read book Grit Lit written by Brian R. Carpenter and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an anthology of short fiction focusing on the gritty side of life in the South.
Download or read book A Literate South written by Beth Barton Schweiger and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South’s oral tradition Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible—which has its origins in the eighteenth century—has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture.
Download or read book Reading from the South written by Sarah Nuttall and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023-08 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This set of essays analyses the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, globally recognised as one of South Africa’s foremost literary and Indian Ocean scholars. The essays elucidate Hofmeyr’s path-breaking studies of transnational histories of the book, African print cultures, and cultural circulations in the Indian Ocean world. This book draws together reflective and analytical essays by renowned intellectuals from around the world who critically engage with the work of one of the global South’s leading scholars of African print cultures and the oceanic humanities. Isabel Hofmeyr’s scholarship spans more than four decades, and its sustained and long-term influence on her discipline and beyond is formidable. While much of the history of print cultures has been written primarily from the North, Isabel Hofmeyr is one of the leading thinkers producing new knowledge in this area from Africa, the Indian Ocean world and the global South. Her major contribution encompasses the history of the book as well as shorter textual forms and abridged iterations of canonical works such as John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. She has done pioneering research on the ways in which such printed matter moves across the globe, focusing on intra-African trajectories and circulations as well as movements across land and sea, port and shore. The essays gathered here are written in a blend of intellectual and personal modes, and mostly by scholars of Indian and African descent. Via their engagement with Hofmeyr’s path-breaking work, the essays in turn elaborate and contribute to studies of print culture as well as critical oceanic studies, consolidating their findings from the point of view of global South historical contexts and textual practices.”--Publisher’s description.
Download or read book The Southern Reader and Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American South written by Daniel Letwin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'two-in-one' introduction to the American South, from its colonial beginnings to the present, combining guides to the key areas and themes with extracts from primary and secondary texts.
Download or read book A Southern Reader Volume 1 written by Marshall Dell and published by . This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABOUT THE BOOK The fifteen stories in this book reflect the kernels of stories told to me while managing three country Post Offices at different times in my career. Most were exaggerated tales, and some outright lies. Then there were the things that happened in the post office lobby such as the elderly maiden lady who received an unsolicited pornographic advertisement in the mail. She dropped it on the lobby floor is if it were a snake rather than hold it in her hands. She came trembling and crying into my office with indignation to think that someone could possibly believe she may be interested such degrading material. She was tremendously humiliated. In my opinion she was far too good and far too kind for this earth. A tender and caring heart in a sea of thoughtless and careless commercial peddling. An enthusiastic young married country couple who decided to try an open marriage only to have theirs fall apart, first with jealous anger then violence and the inevitable divorce court. With time the locals began to confide in me and it was from them I learned we truly live in glass houses, the supposed secrets on display through endless gossip. All are interesting for the human drama that swirl about the everyday lives of the average person. Loss, jealousy, anger, indignation, love lost and love found. Some of my customers came into the office with the intent of unloading, their griefs, sorrows, joys, jokes, and often for nothing more than to touch base with another human. I will always be grateful for the confidences and secrets trusted to me. While these stories contain the kernels of those life happenings I hid them in plain sight in the dialogue, narrative, scenes, locations, and characters of the enclosed tales. Two of these stories could be considered hard core southern gothic, another southern gothic light a couple of WW2 love stories, a Vietnam vet story with problems that he refused to blame on his service time in Vietnam. A small town man slow in the mind was railroaded off to Milledgeville in order to get him off the streets, but the doctor recognizing a superior attitude behind the forced visit, sent him home with the message if he is the worst you have be ever so grateful. Read about the school teacher whose mother died giving him birth and the father who never wasted a chance to blame him for her death. Read about the nurse who had a husband for a drunk with sclerosis of the liver and overwhelmed with his inattention to a retarded son she put pain killers in his whiskey speeding his death date up by weeks. She married another drunk but a nice one but he drowned accidentally. When the autopsy came back he also had sclerosis of the liver and soon would have died anyway complicated by the intake of pain killers. She had warned him against taking pain killers and he had assured her that he would not take the chance of being parted from her company. Yet he had anyway. She was shocked to find out the reason. Meet the intelligent redneck nerd who fell in love with a girl who had a birthmark on her face. Follow his adventures and misadventures and humiliations as he traveled about the country driving a sixteen wheeler. This story is the longest one in the collection. My accumulated notes covering those years have not all been used up by any means. I hope to transfer those remaining bits of my past life to similar stories. Marshall L Dell
Download or read book Southern Living written by Ad Hudler and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the utterly eccentric world of Selby, Georgia, where the folks sprinkle three things liberally over their daily lives: sugar, religion, and the wicked fun of Southern living. Margaret Pinaldi is the quiet daughter of a hell-raising abortion-rights advocate who recently died—bequeathing Margaret a house in Georgia. Finally free from her mother’s demanding presence, this transplanted Yankee is finding herself for the first time, courtesy of the Deep South. And, much to her surprise, she likes it. A former International Dogwood Festival Queen, Donna Kabel once had cute male suitors chase her like hounds to the fox. But all that changed after a car accident left her with a huge facial scar. Now Donna works in the produce section of Kroger. But it seems that the scar that could have cost Donna her inner strength has actually spurred her to reinvent herself. Thirty-four-year-old Suzanne Parley, the chardonnay-alcoholic wife of a fifth-generation Selby neurosurgeon named Boone, longs to have the most exquisitely decorated house in the affluent Red Hill Plantation community. Childless and directionless, Suzanne suddenly comes up with a bold plan to make her bored husband love her again: she’ll simply fake a pregnancy. On the eve of this year’s all-important Dogwood Festival, the disparate lives of these three women will converge in a brilliant comedy of Southern manners like none other. With this funny and poignant novel, Ad Hudler joins Fannie Flagg and Adriana Trigiani as one of our best chroniclers of Southern life. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book A Southern Reader written by Marshall L. Dell and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The South Africa Reader written by Clifton Crais and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and racial discrimination. Among the selections are folktales passed down through the centuries, statements by seventeenth-century Dutch colonists, the songs of mine workers, a widow's testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and a photo essay featuring the acclaimed work of Santu Mofokeng. Cartoons, songs, and fiction are juxtaposed with iconic documents, such as "The Freedom Charter" adopted in 1955 by the African National Congress and its allies and Nelson Mandela's "Statement from the Dock" in 1964. Cacophonous voices—those of slaves and indentured workers, African chiefs and kings, presidents and revolutionaries—invite readers into ongoing debates about South Africa's past and present and what exactly it means to be South African.
Download or read book The Rhetorical Manual Or Southern Fifth Reader written by D. Barton Ross and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reading Southern History written by Glenn Feldman and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2001-10-09 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the contributions of some of the most notable interpreters of American southern history and culture. The volume includes 18 chapters on such notable historians as John Hope Franklin, Anne Firor Scott and W.J. Cash.
Download or read book Reading Southern Poverty Between the Wars 1918 1939 written by Richard Godden and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin D. Roosevelt once described the South as "the nation's number one economic problem." These twelve original, interdisciplinary essays on southern indigence between the World Wars share a conviction that poverty is not just a dilemma of the marketplace but also a cultural and political construction. Although previous studies have examined the web of coercive social relations in which sharecroppers, wage laborers, and other poor southerners were held in place, this volume opens up a new perspective. These essays show that professed forces of change and modernization in the South--writers, photographers, activists, social scientists, and policymakers--often subtly upheld the structures by which southern labor was being exploited. Planters, politicians, and others who enforced the southern economic and social status quo not only relied on bigotry but also manipulated deeply held American beliefs about sturdy yeoman nobility and the sanctity of farm and family. Conversely, any threats to the system were tarred with the imagery of big cities, northerners, and organized labor. The essays expose vestiges of these beliefs in sources as varied as photographs from the Farm Security Administration, statistics for incarceration and child labor, and the writings of Grace Lumpkin, Ellen Glasgow, and Erskine Caldwell. This volume shows that those who work to eradicate poverty--and even victims of poverty themselves--can hesitate to cross the line of race, gender, memory, or tradition in pursuit of their goal.
Download or read book Reading North by South written by Neil Larsen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
