Writing the South through the self : explorations in southern autobiography / / John C. Inscoe
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| Autore: |
Inscoe John C. <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Writing the South through the self : explorations in southern autobiography / / John C. Inscoe
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| Pubblicazione: | Athens [Ga.], : University of Georgia Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (268 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 975 |
| Soggetto topico: | Autobiography - Social aspects - Southern States |
| Autobiography - Psychological aspects - Southern States | |
| Race discrimination - Southern States | |
| Miscegenation (Racist theory) - Southern States | |
| Social stratification - Southern States | |
| Segregation in transportation - Southern States | |
| College students - Southern States - Attitudes | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Southern States Biography |
| Southern States Social conditions | |
| Appalachian Region Social conditions | |
| Note generali: | "Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council." |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Lessons from southern lives : teaching race through autobiography -- "I learn what I am" : adolescent struggles with mixed-race identity -- "All manner of defeated, shiftless, shifty, pathetic and interesting good people" : autobiographical encounters with southern white poverty -- Railroads, race, and remembrance : the traumas of train travel in the Jim Crow South -- "I'm better than this sorry place" : coming to terms with self and the South in college -- Sense of place, sense of being : Appalachian struggles with identity, belonging, and escape -- Afterword. "getting fed up with this two-tone South" : moving toward ulticulturalism. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Drawing on two decades of teaching a college-level course on southern history as viewed through autobiography and memoir, John C. Inscoe has crafted a series of essays exploring the southern experience as reflected in the life stories of those who lived it. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Writing the South through the self |
| ISBN: | 1-283-11037-7 |
| 9786613110374 | |
| 0-8203-3968-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818430003321 |
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