Southern Character

Author : Lisa Tendrich Frank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813036908
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Character written by Lisa Tendrich Frank and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essays examining the character of the Southern gentleman, representing the works of historian Bert Wyatt-Brown and stressing the plural--not monolithic--nature of the South"--

Author : Ariela J. Gross
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823846
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Character written by Ariela J. Gross and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking study of the day-to-day law and culture of slavery, Ariela Gross investigates the local courtrooms of the Deep South where ordinary people settled their disputes over slaves. Buyers sued sellers for breach of warranty when they considered slaves to be physically or morally defective; owners sued supervisors who whipped or neglected slaves under their care. Double Character seeks to explain how communities dealt with an important dilemma raised by these trials: how could slaves who acted as moral agents be treated as commodities? Because these cases made the character of slaves a central legal question, slaves' moral agency intruded into the courtroom, often challenging the character of slaveholders who saw themselves as honorable masters. Gross looks at the stories about white and black character that witnesses and litigants put forth in court. She not only reveals the role of law in constructing "race" but also offers a portrait of the culture of slavery, one that addresses historical debates about law, honor, and commerce in the American South. Gross maintains that witnesses and litigants drew on narratives available in the culture at large to explain the nature and origins of slaves' character, such as why slaves became runaways. But the legal process also shaped their expressions of racial ideology by favoring certain explanations over others. Double Character brings to life the law as a dramatic ritual in people's daily lives, looking at trials from the perspective of litigants, lawyers, doctors, and the slaves themselves. The author's approach combines the methods of cultural anthropology, quantitative social history, and critical race theory.

Author : Grady Hendrix
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594748632
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Best Friend's Exorcism written by Grady Hendrix and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon to be a major motion picture. This ENHANCED DIGITAL EDITION features TONS of TOTALLY AWESOME ’80s bonus materials—including Satanic Panic educational pamphlets, a do-it-yourself exorcism cheat sheet, a Spotify playlist of awesome ’80s tunes, animated cover artwork, and much more! From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, this unholy hybrid of Beaches and The Exorcist blends teen angst and unspeakable horrors into a pulse-pounding supernatural thriller. The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She’s moody. She’s irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she’s nearby. Abby’s investigation leads her to some startling discoveries—and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship powerful enough to beat the devil?

Author : Idora McClellan Moore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betsy Hamilton written by Idora McClellan Moore and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469664992
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Way of Life written by Charles Reagan Wilson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three centuries of southern regional consciousness across many genres, disciplines, and cultural strains, Wilson considers and challenges prior presentations of the region, advancing a vision of southern culture that has always been plural, dynamic, and complicated by race and class. Structured in three parts, The Southern Way of Life takes readers on a journey from the colonial era to the present, from when complex ideas of "southern civilization" rooted in slaveholding and agrarianism dominated to the twenty-first-century rise of a modern, multicultural "southern living." As Wilson shows, there is no singular or essential South but rather a rich tapestry woven with contestations, contingencies, and change.

Author : Clay Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oral Character of Southern Literature written by Clay Morton and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary distinctiveness of the American South has been an object of much scholarly discussion. Although oratory and folklore are often cited as influences on the unique character of Southern literature, no scholar in the field has yet explored orality as a possibly deterministic factor in the shaping of the region's literary and cultural identity. This study makes use of the extensive research available on the differences between oral and literate thought and expression in order to argue that practically every distinguishing factor of Southern literature may be traced the region's oral orientation. To this end, empirical findings on identifiably oral linguistic strategies, narrative structures, and epistemologies are fruitfully synthesized with analyses of works by Southern authors, including James Weldon Johnson, Eudira Welty, William Gilmore Simms, William Faulkner, Donald Davidson, and Zora Neale Hurston. These discussions provide not only a new theory of Southern exceptionalism, but also a new theoretical framework for reading Southern texts.

Author : Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Review written by Albert Taylor Bledsoe and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hemendra Kisor Rakshit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Immigration Policy of the Southern States After the Civil War, 1865-1870 written by Hemendra Kisor Rakshit and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes also Minutes of [the] Proceedings, and Report of [the] President and Council for the year.

Author : Edwin Anderson Alderman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library of Southern Literature written by Edwin Anderson Alderman and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: