Writing the South through the self : explorations in southern autobiography /
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. Constantly attuned to the pedagogical valu...
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| Language: | English |
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Athens, Ga. ; London :
University of Georgia Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=362429 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.