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The past is not dead : essays from the Southern quarterly / edited by Douglas B. Chambers, with Kenneth Watson ; foreword by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Southern quarterly.
- American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Southern States--Civilization.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--History.
- Southern States--In literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xlvii, 367 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi for the Southern Quarterly, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a collection of twenty-one literary and historical chapters marking the 50th anniversary of the Southern Quarterly, one of the oldest scholarly journals (founded in 1962) dedicated to southern studies. Topics covered range from historical chapters on the French and Indian War, the New Deal, and Emmett Till's influence on the Black Panther Party to literary figures including William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wright, Eurdora Welty, and Carson McCullers. Important regional subjects are given special attention.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I 1960s
- Levee Building and the Settlement of the Yazoo Basin
- From Enchantment to Disillusionment A Southern Editor Views the New Deal
- Some Mississippi Views of American Federalism, 1817-1900
- Part II 1970s
- "Harmony with the Dead" James Dickey's Descent into the Underworld
- Pat Harrison and the Social Security Act of 1935
- The Southern Belle as an Antebellum Ideal
- A Sense of Place and the Americanization of Mississippi
- Part III 1980s
- Cable's The Grandissimes A Literary Pioneer Confronts the Southern Tradition
- Southern Writers Notes Toward a Definition of Terms
- "Tough Times" Downhome Blues Recordings as Folk History
- The Black Faith of W. E. B. Du Bois Sociocultural and Political Dimensions of Black Religion
- Subverting History Women, Narrative, and Patriarchy in Absalom, Absalom!
- Part VI 1990s
- On Welty's Use of Allusion Expectations and Their Revision in "The Wide Net," The Robber Bridegroom, and "At The Landing."
- Natchez and Richard Wright in Southern American Literature
- The Mississippi Frontier in Faulkner's Fiction and in Fact
- Unlinking Race and Gender The Awakening as a Southern Novel
- Part V 2000s
- "When Is an Ocean not an Ocean?" Geographies of the Atlantic World
- The Southern Way of Death The Meaning of Death in Antebellum White Evangelical Culture
- Africa and the American South Culinary Connections
- Harriet Jacobs at Home in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
- James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Dialectic of Documentary Representation in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- List Of Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-85569-0
- 1-280-69160-3
- 9786613668547
- 1-61703-305-7
- OCLC:
- 773495364
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