The Oxford book of the American South : testimony, memory, and fiction / edited by Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf.
The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The collection presents the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present. Renowned authors such...
Saved in:
| Online Access: |
Full Text (via Internet Archive) |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1997.
|
| Subjects: |
MARC
| LEADER | 00000cam a2200000 a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | b11202176 | ||
| 003 | CoU | ||
| 006 | m o d | ||
| 007 | cr ||||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 961003s1997 nyu ob 001 0 eng | ||
| 005 | 20230926213722.4 | ||
| 010 | |z 96045135 | ||
| 020 | |z 0195085221 |q (hardcover ; |q alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | |z 9780195085228 |q (hardcover ; |q alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | |z 0195124936 |q (pbk.) | ||
| 020 | |z 9780195124934 |q (pbk.) | ||
| 035 | |a (CaSfIA)iam000000000178905 | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d UKM |d BAKER |d UKV3G |d NLGGC |d BTCTA |d YDXCP |d LVB |d OCLCG |d QT5 |d DEBBG |d OCL |d HALAN |d ZWZ |d UKMGB |d MUO |d OCLCF |d OCLCO |d P4I |d FM0 |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d DEBSZ |d OCLCQ |d C@V |d OCLCO |d OCLCA |d PAU |d OCLCQ |d CSJ |d DHA |d OCLCQ |d CCH |d MRM |d CPO |d JDP |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCA |d UKUOY |d OCLCQ |d OCL |d OCLCO |d TFW |d OCLCO |d TJC |d OCLCO |d OCL |d OCLCQ |d OCLCO |d OCLCA |d OCLCQ |d OCLCA |d OCLCQ |d CaSfIA | ||
| 043 | |a n-usu-- | ||
| 050 | 0 | 4 | |a PS551 |b .O97 1997 |
| 245 | 0 | 4 | |a The Oxford book of the American South : |b testimony, memory, and fiction / |c edited by Edward L. Ayers, Bradley C. Mittendorf. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 1997. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (x, 597 pages) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent. | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia. | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t from Travels / |r William Bartram -- |t from The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / |r Olaudah Equiano -- |t from Notes on the state of Virginia / |r Thomas Jefferson -- |t from the Reverend Francis Asbury's journal / |r Francis Asbury -- |t from The confessions of Nat Turner / |r Nat Turner -- |t from Georgia scenes / |r Augustus Baldwin Longstreet -- |t from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / |r Frederick Douglass -- |t from Social relations in our Southern states / |r Daniel R. Hundley -- |t from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / |r Harriet Jacobs -- |t from The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / |r Mark Twain -- |t from The mind of the South / |r W.J. Cash -- |t from The making of a Southerner / |r Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin -- |t from The confessions of Nat Turner / |r William Styron -- |t from Dessa Rose / |r Sherley Anne Williams -- |t from The Civil War diary of Sarah Morgan / |r Sarah Morgan -- |t from "Co. Aytch" / |r Sam Watkins -- |t from Red hills and cotton: an upcountry memory / |r Ben Robertson -- |t from Know nothing / |r Mary Lee Settle -- |t from The legacy of the Civil War / |r Robert Penn Warren -- |t from Jubilee / |r Margaret Walker -- |t "Dragged fighting from his tomb" / |r Barry Hannah -- |t "Shiloh" / |r Bobbie Ann Mason -- |t "Letter to the Union Convention, 1865" / |r Black Citizens of Tennessee -- |t "Dave's neckliss" / |r Charles W. Chesnutt -- |t "The little convent girl" / |r Grace King -- |t "Desiree's baby" / |r Kate Chopin -- |t from Up from slavery / |r Booker T. Washington -- |t from The souls of Black folk / |r W.E.B. Du Bois -- |t from The deliverance / |r Ellen Glasgow -- |t "Wash" / |r William Faulkner -- |t from Gone with the wind / |r Margaret Mitchell -- |t from I'll take my stand / |r Twelve Southerners -- |t from "Boom town" / |r Thomas Wolfe -- |t "Kneel to the rising sun" / |r Erskine Caldwell -- |t from Their eyes were watching God / |r Zora Neale Hurston -- |t "Death of a traveling salesman" / |r Eudora Welty -- |t from Lanterns on the levee / |r William Alexander Percy -- |t from Let us now praise famous men / |r James Agee -- |t from Black boy / |r Richard Wright -- |t from Invisible man / |r Ralph Ellison -- |t from I know why the caged bird sings / |r Maya Angelou -- |t from Train whistle guitar / |r Albert Murray -- |t from A childhood, the biography of a place / |r Harry Crews -- |t from Oral history / |r Lee Smith -- |t from I am one of you forever / |r Fred Chappell -- |t from Killers of the dream / |r Lillian Smith -- |t "Letter from Birmingham jail" / |r Martin Luther King, Jr. -- |t "Everything that rises must converge" / |r Flannery O'Connor -- |t from The last gentleman / |r Walker Percy -- |t from North toward home / |r Willie Morris -- |t "The sky is gray" / |r Ernest J. Gaines -- |t from Meridan / |r Alice Walker -- |t "Why I like country music" / |r James Alan McPherson -- |t "Good-bye, good-bye, be always kind and true" / |r George Garrett -- |t from Keeper of the moon: a Southern boyhood / |r Tim McLaurin -- |t "The decline and fall of the Episcopal Church (in the year of our Lord 1952)" / |r Peter Taylor -- |t from Salvation on Sand Mountain / |r Dennis Covington -- |t from Mississippi: an American Journey / |r Anthony Walton. |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The collection presents the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present. Renowned authors such as James Agee, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou, Lee Smith, Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Flannery O'Connor appear in these pages, but so do people whose writing did not immediately reach a large audience. For example, Harriet A. Jacobs' book Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, which is now recognized as one of the most illuminating narratives of a former slave, was neglected for generations. And Sarah Morgan's powerful Civil War Diary has only recently come to widespread attention. The Oxford Book of the American South presents compelling autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, and journalism as well as stories and selections from novels, and runs the spectrum from the conservative to the radical, the traditional to the innovative. Editors Edward L. Ayers and Bradley C. Mittendorf have arranged these diverse readings so that they fit together into a rich mosaic of Southern life and history. The sections of the book - The Old South, The Civil War and Its Consequences, Hard Times, and The Turning - unfold a vivid record of life below the Mason-Dixon line. We see the antebellum period both from the perspective of those who experienced it first-hand, such as Thomas Jefferson and former slaves Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass, and then from the perspective of authors looking back on that era, including William Styron and Sherley Anne Williams. Likewise, we see the Civil War through the eyes of witnesses such as Sam Watkins, through the eyes of later writers trying to make sense of the conflict, such as Robert Penn Warren, and through the eyes of those using the war's intense passions to fuel their fiction, such as Margaret Mitchell and Barry Hannah. The classic authors of the Southern Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s appear here in the context of the hard times in which they wrote. The years since World War II are chronicled in the powerful words of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail," George Garrett's "Good-bye, Good-bye, Be Always Kind and True," and Peter Taylor's "The Decline and Fall of the Episcopal Church, in the Year of Our Lord 1952." | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a American literature |z Southern States. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Southern States |x Literary collections. | |
| 651 | 2 | |a Southeastern United States. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a American literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00807113. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Southern States. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01244550. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01921716. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Literary collections. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01423811. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Literature. |2 lcgft. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Ayers, Edward L., |d 1953- | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Mittendorf, Bradley C., |d 1967- | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |t Oxford book of the American South. |d New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 |w (OCoLC)745985797. |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://archive.org/details/confessionsofnat0000unse |z Full Text (via Internet Archive) |
| 907 | |a .b112021761 |b 06-25-20 |c 06-25-20 | ||
| 998 | |a web |b - - |c f |d b |e z |f eng |g nyu |h 4 |i 1 | ||
| 956 | |a Internet Archive | ||
| 999 | f | f | |i 1c56ed99-f55d-5e10-8296-40d30d5d2b9e |s 7505df4b-919f-5139-a210-ee8416eb20fd |
| 952 | f | f | |p Can circulate |a University of Colorado Boulder |b Online |c Online |d Online |e PS551 .O97 1997 |h Library of Congress classification |i web |n 1 |