I Don't Hate the South - Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South

Informationen zum Autor Houston A. Baker, Jr. is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. Currently Distinguished University Professor of English as Vanderbilt University, he has taught at Yale, the Universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania, and Duke. His books include Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism, Re-Reading Booker T., Critical Memory: Public Spheres, African American Writing and Black Fathers and Sons in America, and Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature. Klappentext I Don't Hate The South's central claim is that the South is a laboratory, metaphor, and proving ground for American polity as a whole. With incisive wit, scrupulous literary and cultural analysis, and vivid portraits of members of his own family, the author provides captivating reading and an object lesson on the United States' regional and national interdependence. Zusammenfassung I Don't Hate The South's central claim is that the South is a laboratory, metaphor, and proving ground for American polity as a whole. With incisive wit, scrupulous literary and cultural analysis, and vivid portraits of members of his own family, the author provides captivating reading and an object lesson on the United States' regional and national interdependence.

Product details

• Authors: Houston A. Baker, Houston A. (Distinguished University Professor of English Baker, Houston A. Jr. Baker, Baker Houston A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.08.2007
• EAN: 9780195326550
• ISBN: 978-0-19-532655-0
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural anthropology, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History of the Americas, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Central Southern States, US South, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form