TY  - GEN
T1  - A literate South : reading before emancipation
A1  - Schweiger, Beth Barton
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1103320407
AB  - A pervasive assumption about the culture of the southern United States is that it is firmly rooted in an oral tradition, not a written one. Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy and reading in the American South before emancipation by shedding light on literature's importance in helping the South preserve tradition, develop southern vernacular, and form a cultural identity. Schweiger explains how the "universal truth" of literacy's incompatibility with slavery hid readers in this region from their society and beyond, and obscured a rich literate tradition.
OP  - 280
CN  - LC152.S6
SN  - 9780300245394
SN  - 0300245394
SN  - 9780300112535
SN  - 030011253X
KW  - Literacy : Southern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Books and reading : Southern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - White people : Books and reading : Southern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Enslaved persons : Books and reading : Southern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - African Americans : Books and reading : Southern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Writing : Southern States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Livres et lecture : États-Unis (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Personnes blanches : Livres et lecture : États-Unis (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Esclaves : Livres et lecture : États-Unis (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Noirs américains : Livres et lecture : États-Unis (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Écriture : États-Unis (Sud) : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY : Social Psychology.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Books & Reading.
KW  - African Americans : Books and reading
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Literacy
KW  - Writing
KW  - Southern States
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - History
ER  -