Edward L. (Hrsg.) Ayers

The Oxford Book of the American South

Testimony, Memory, and Fiction

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Resonating with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless and the powerful, this collection presents the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South over the last 200 years. The sections of the book - The Old South, The Civil War and Its Consequences, Hard Times, and The Turning - unfold in a compelling record of life below the Mason-Dixon line. Conveying `the passions that have surfaced time and again in more than two hundred years of Southern writing,' the writings explore core themes such as race, religious faith, violence, family, and the Civil War and its aftermath. Works by famous Southern writers (… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Mittendorf, Bradley C. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-512493-4
EAN: 9780195124934
Produktnummer: 22680444
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Seitenangabe: 608 S.
Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.5 cm x D3.1 cm 504 g
Gewicht: 504

Über den Autor

About the Editors: Edward L. Ayers, born in North Carolina, was raised in Tennessee and attended the University of Tennessee and Yale University. Ayers has taught the history and culture of the American South at the University of Virginia since 1980. His The Promise of the New South won the Owsley Prize for the best book on the history of the South and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Bradley C. Mittendorf, born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a writer and political consultant in his native town. He attended Louisiana State University and the University of Virginia and is currently working on a project concerning Robert Penn Warren.