South Of Haunted Dreams

Author : Eddy L. Harris
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466885718
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South of Haunted Dreams written by Eddy L. Harris and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For black Americans from the north, a crossing into the South has always been a meaningful transition, a journey weighted with the burdens of history and oppression. Writing with real emotion and a twist of irony, Eddy L. Harris combines the lively detail of travel writing with a brilliant exploration of race in America in South of Haunted Dreams: A Memoir.

Author : Eddy L. Harris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South of Haunted Dreams written by Eddy L. Harris and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey of an an Afro-American on a motorcycle into "slavery's old back yard," a territory "where old hurts and troubled memories linger around every corner."

Author : Eddy L. Harris
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0805055746
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South of Haunted Dreams written by Eddy L. Harris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For black Americans from the north, a crossing into the South has always been a meaningful transition, a journey weighted with the burdens of history and oppression. Writing with real emotion and a twist of irony, Eddy L. Harris combines the lively detail of travel writing with a brilliant exploration of race in America.

Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626349
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tales from the Haunted South written by Tiya Miles and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.

Author : Eddy Harris
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805059038
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Solo written by Eddy Harris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.

Author : Jane Peart
Publisher : Diamond Books (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9781557736499
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Haunted Dreams written by Jane Peart and published by Diamond Books (NY). This book was released on 1992 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, Blessing McCall was haunted by her dreams . . . a chilling dream of childhood, a single dreadful night, buried deep in her own memory. Beyond that night lurked a forgotten past . . . and with the death of her mother, the truth was at last revealed. Blessing journeyed to New Orleans to unveil the secret of her own identity. But there, swirling in the color and magic of Mardi Gras, was a mask of mystery and fear. One man unlocked the passion in her heart. Another man -- like a shadow in the night -- sparked the terror in her soul . . .

Author : Judy Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781640963504
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Dreams written by Judy Lee and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Gilbreath Ford
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496829719
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Property written by Sarah Gilbreath Ford and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of a 2021 South Central Modern Language Association Book Prize At the heart of America’s slave system was the legal definition of people as property. While property ownership is a cornerstone of the American dream, the status of enslaved people supplies a contrasting American nightmare. Sarah Gilbreath Ford considers how writers in works from nineteenth-century slave narratives to twenty-first-century poetry employ gothic tools, such as ghosts and haunted houses, to portray the horrors of this nightmare. Haunted Property: Slavery and the Gothic thus reimagines the southern gothic, which has too often been simply equated with the macabre or grotesque and then dismissed as regional. Although literary critics have argued that the American gothic is driven by the nation’s history of racial injustice, what is missing in this critical conversation is the key role of property. Ford argues that out of all of slavery’s perils, the definition of people as property is the central impetus for haunting because it allows the perpetration of all other terrors. Property becomes the engine for the white accumulation of wealth and power fueled by the destruction of black personhood. Specters often linger, however, to claim title, and Ford argues that haunting can be a bid for property ownership. Through examining works by Harriet Jacobs, Hannah Crafts, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Sherley Anne Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Natasha Trethewey, Ford reveals how writers can use the gothic to combat legal possession with spectral possession.

Author : Lillian Smith
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393311600
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Killers Of The Dream written by Lillian Smith and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994-07-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author cites the evils of segregation for both white and colored people and gives the history of race relations from pre-Civil War days.

Author : Colleen Oakley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984806467
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book You Were There Too written by Colleen Oakley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A USA TODAY BESTSELLER “A surprising and incredibly satisfying story of chance and fate.”—New York Times bestselling author Taylor Jenkins Reid “I read it in one long gulp and didn’t want it to end.”—New York Times bestselling author Jill Santopolo Acclaimed author Colleen Oakley delivers a heart-wrenching and unforgettable love story about a woman who must choose between the man she loves and the man fate has chosen for her, in a novel that reminds us that the best life is one led by the heart. Mia Graydon's life looks picket-fence perfect; she has the house, her loving husband, and dreams of starting a family. But she has other dreams too—unexplained, recurring ones starring the same man. Still, she doesn’t think much of it, until a relocation to small-town Pennsylvania brings her face to face with the stranger she has been dreaming about for years. And this man harbors a jaw-dropping secret of his own—he's been dreaming of her too. Determined to understand, Mia and this not-so-stranger search for answers. But when diving into their pasts begins to unravel her life in the present, Mia emerges with a single question—what if?