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Book Personal Souths

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas B. Chambers
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2012-04-25
  • ISBN : 1496800117
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Personal Souths written by Douglas B. Chambers and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Souths, a collection of twenty interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. The figures interviewed range from Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams (all from the 1970s), to a virtual Who's Who of southern literature in the second half of the twentieth century. All of these interviews were originally published in the journal in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s and are collected here for the first time. The South is represented broadly, with writers from eight states; at least four represent the “mountain South” (Donald Harrington, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith), while another four typify a “cosmopolitan South” (Reynolds Price, Mary Lee Settle, Elizabeth Spencer, Tennessee Williams). The greatest number of voices, at least eight of the authors, speak for or from the “poor white South” (Larry Brown, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crews, Donald Harrington, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Morgan, Del Shores, Lee Smith). Though there is only one African American writer, Ernest J. Gaines, another interview (William Styron, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Confessions of Nat Turner) also focuses on a conversation about African American literature. The interviews are all fascinating. Not only do they reveal the personalities of these southern literary stars, but they also represent a self-conscious community of writers. It is a testament to the quality of The Southern Quarterly that many of these writers, when discussing their most important contemporaries, often refer to other writers whose interviews are also in this collection. These firsthand discussions will continue to illuminate and inform our understanding of their creative work.

Book Personal Souths

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chambers B. Douglas
  • Publisher :
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  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Personal Souths written by Chambers B. Douglas and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Personal Souths

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas B. Chambers
  • Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
  • Release : 2012-04-25
  • ISBN : 1617032921
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Personal Souths written by Douglas B. Chambers and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal Souths, a collection of twenty interviews with famous southern writers, will mark the fiftieth anniversary of The Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. The figures interviewed range from Erskine Caldwell, Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams (all from the 1970s), to a virtual Who's Who of southern literature in the second half of the twentieth century. All of these interviews were originally published in the journal in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s and are collected here for the first time. The South is represented broadly, with writers from eight states; at least four represent the “mountain South” (Donald Harrington, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Morgan, Lee Smith), while another four typify a “cosmopolitan South” (Reynolds Price, Mary Lee Settle, Elizabeth Spencer, Tennessee Williams). The greatest number of voices, at least eight of the authors, speak for or from the “poor white South” (Larry Brown, Erskine Caldwell, Harry Crews, Donald Harrington, Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Morgan, Del Shores, Lee Smith). Though there is only one African American writer, Ernest J. Gaines, another interview (William Styron, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Confessions of Nat Turner) also focuses on a conversation about African American literature. The interviews are all fascinating. Not only do they reveal the personalities of these southern literary stars, but they also represent a self-conscious community of writers. It is a testament to the quality of The Southern Quarterly that many of these writers, when discussing their most important contemporaries, often refer to other writers whose interviews are also in this collection. These firsthand discussions will continue to illuminate and inform our understanding of their creative work.

Book  Personal in My Memory   The South in Popular Film by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers

Download or read book Personal in My Memory The South in Popular Film by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers written by Godfrey Cheshire and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Personal in My Memory" The South in Popular Film by some of our favorite writers and filmmakers with an introduction by Godfrey Cheshire Alice Walker, Allan Gurganus, Randall Kenan, Joe Flora, Kenneth Turan, Elizabeth Spencer, and Andrew Garrison tell how their favorite Southern films marked them indelibly. "We have two imaginary kingdoms. One, 'the South,' exists primarily in song, oral traditions and folkways, native art and literature. The other, 'Hollywood,' creates mass-produced audiovisual entertainments for American and world audiences, and develops its own mythology."

Book The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia

Download or read book The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia written by Partha S. Ghosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a political study of the controversy surrounding the issue of the uniform civil code vis-à-vis personal laws from a South Asian perspective. At the centre of the debate is whether there should be a centralized view of the legal system in a given society or a decentralized view, both horizontally and vertically. This issue is entangled within the threads of identity politics, minority rights, women’s rights, national integration, global Islamic politics and universal human rights. Champions of each category view it through their own prisms, making the debate extremely complex, especially in politically and socially plural South Asia. So, this book attempts to harmonize the threads of the debate to provide a holistic political analysis.

Book An Ethnography of Faith  Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg  South Africa  in the Early 20th Century

Download or read book An Ethnography of Faith Personal Conceptions of Religiosity in the Soutpansberg South Africa in the Early 20th Century written by Caroline Jeannerat and published by BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research into the history of Christian missions in the context of colonialism has focused primarily on missions as institutions and on the ways in which people were integrated into the economic, political and ideological spheres of imperial powers. Reduced to an experience occurring within a person, faith was deemed unapproachable by scientific methods. This has, in effect, constituted a silence regarding the everyday experience of religiosity among those drawn to Christianity. The Ethnography of Faith is a detailed study of the ways in which people engage with and experience the religious in order to recognise and understand this suppressed voice of religiosity. In her analysis of the Lutheran church in the Soutpansberg of early 20th century South Africa, Caroline Jeannerat listens closely to how people describe their own faith and that of others in the archive: in accounts of work done, in texts written for mission publications, in songs composed for church services, in letters and newspaper articles, and in oral memories. A careful reading of this archive—for breaks, for misunderstandings and oppositions, for sentiments of agreement, praise, compatibility and claims of shared experiences—identifies negotiations of meaning which give indications of conceptualisations of faith that stand in distinction to those of the missionaries and their expectations.

Book Incwadi Yami  or  twenty years  personal experience in South Africa

Download or read book Incwadi Yami or twenty years personal experience in South Africa written by J. W. Matthews and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-09 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Incwadi Yami; or, twenty years' personal experience in South Africa" by J. W. Matthews. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book Your Guide to South Carolina Personal Injury   Workers  Compensation

Download or read book Your Guide to South Carolina Personal Injury Workers Compensation written by Kenneth Berger and published by Word Association Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Berger has dedicated his professional career to the representation of the injured and aggrieved. His practice focuses on the fields of personal injury, workers¿ compensation, and civil litigation. More specifically, Mr. Berger seeks to represent individuals and families in cases involving auto and trucking accidents, work injuries, unsafe products, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, property hazards, insurance disputes, consumer abuses, wrongful death, and other areas of civil law.¿As an injury attorney, I have a responsibility not only to advocate, but to protect and give back,¿ Mr. Berger says. ¿My book, Your Guide to South Carolina Personal Injury & Workers¿ Compensation, provides a number of safety tips designed to help the public¿especially families with children¿avoid accidents. I also look for ways that my law firm and I can strengthen the community in which we live.¿

Book Madras  Mysore  and the South of India  Or  A Personal Narrative of a Mission to Those Countries from MDCCCXX to MDCCCXXVIII

Download or read book Madras Mysore and the South of India Or A Personal Narrative of a Mission to Those Countries from MDCCCXX to MDCCCXXVIII written by Elijah Hoole and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ten Years in South Central Polynesia  being reminiscences of a personal mission to the Friendly Islands and their dependencies  etc

Download or read book Ten Years in South Central Polynesia being reminiscences of a personal mission to the Friendly Islands and their dependencies etc written by Thomas WEST (Wesleyan Minister.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Road South

Download or read book The Road South written by B. J. Hollars and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Prologue: All Aboard -- Part I. The Road Behind -- 1. James Zwerg: Appleton, Wisconsin -- 2. Susan Wilbur: Nashville, Tennessee -- 3. Miriam Feingold: Brooklyn, New York -- 4. Charles Person: Atlanta, Georgia -- Part II. The Road Ahead -- 5. Bernard LaFayette Jr.: Tampa, Florida -- 6. Bill Harbour: Piedmont, Alabama -- 7. Catherine Burks: Birmingham, Alabama -- 8. Hezekiah Watkins: Jackson, Mississippi -- 9. Arione Irby: Gee's Bend, Alabama -- Epilogue: The Last Stop -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Index

Book Coromandel

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles Allen
  • Publisher : Abacus
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 9780349140117
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Coromandel written by Charles Allen and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India. This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel journeys south, exploring the less well known, often neglected and very different history and identity of the pre-Aryan Dravidian south. During Allen's exploration of the Indian south he meets local historians, gurus and politicians and with their help uncovers some extraordinary stories about the past. His sweeping narrative takes in the archaeology, religion, linguistics and anthropology of the region - and how these have influenced contemporary politics. Known for his vivid storytelling, for decades Allen has travelled the length and breadth of India, revealing the spirit of the sub-continent through its history and people. In Coromandel, he moves through modern-day India, discovering as much about the present as he does about the past.

Book The Provincials

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eli N. Evans
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2006-03-13
  • ISBN : 0807876348
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book The Provincials written by Eli N. Evans and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-03-13 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immigrants to the present day. Evoking the rhythms and heartbeat of Jewish life in the Bible belt, Evans weaves together chapters of recollections from his youth and early years in North Carolina with chapters that explore the experiences of Jews in many cities and small towns across the South. He presents the stories of communities, individuals, and events in this quintessential American landscape that reveal the deeply intertwined strands of what he calls a unique "Southern Jewish consciousness." First published in 1973 and updated in 1997, The Provincials was the first book to take readers on a journey into the soul of the Jewish South, using autobiography, storytelling, and interpretive history to create a complete portrait of Jewish contributions to the history of the region. No other book on this subject combines elements of memoir and history in such a compelling way. This new edition includes a gallery of more than two dozen family and historical photographs as well as a new introduction by the author.

Book Cathedrals of Kudzu

Download or read book Cathedrals of Kudzu written by Hal Crowther and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, one of the most influential Southern journalists of his generation sorts out a whole warehouse of Southern idiosyncrasy and iconography, including the Southern belle, Faulkner, James Dickey, Stonewall Jackson, Cormac McCarthy, guns, dogs, fathers, trees, George Wallace, Elvis, Doc Watson, the decline of poetry, and the return of chain gangs.

Book Security  Governance  and State Fragility in South Africa

Download or read book Security Governance and State Fragility in South Africa written by Edward L. Mienie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do existing measures of state fragility measure fragility accurately? Based on commonly used fragility measures, South Africa (SA) is classified as a relatively stable state, yet rising violent crime, high unemployment, endemic poverty, eroding public trust, identity group based preferential treatment policies, and the rapid rise of the private security sector are all indications that SA may be suffering from latent state fragility. Based on a comprehensive view of security, this study examines the extent to which measures of political legitimacy and good governance, effectiveness in the security system – especially with respect to the police system – and mounting economic challenges may be undermining the stability of SA in ways undetected by commonly used measures of state fragility. Using a mixed-methods approach based on quantitative secondary data analysis and semi-structured interviews with government officials, security practitioners, and leading experts in the field, this study finds that the combination of colonization, apartheid, liberation struggle, transition from autocracy to democracy, high levels of direct and structural violence, stagnating social, political, and economic developments make South Africa a latently fragile state. Conceptually, the results of this research call into question the validity of commonly used measures of state fragility and suggest the need for a more comprehensive approach to assessing state fragility. Practically, this study offers a number of concrete policy recommendations for how South Africa may address mounting levels of latent state fragility.

Book The South Western Reporter

Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.