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  • Where Love Leads

    Leadership and the Liberal Arts

    Series series The Malcolm Lester Phi Beta Kappa Lectures on the Liberal Arts and Public Life
    A higher education innovator identifies a surprising element missing in today’s leadershipOver the course of her remarkable career in American higher education, Mary Dana Hinton has accumulated a great store of wisdom, applicable not just to her own field but to all walks of life. Hinton’s unexpected contention in this accessible and uplifting book is that the essential component of all effective ... Leer más

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  • Bale After Bale

    How Cotton Defined the Twentieth-Century South

    Series series The American South Series
    From the cotton boll to the Cotton Bowl in modern American cultureThere are few places on earth as thoroughly identified with a crop as the American South is with cotton. Burgundy is known for wine, and Java has coffee. In the South, for most of its history, cotton was king. Through much of the twentieth century, cotton cultivation determined nearly every aspect of life in the region. In Bale ... Leer más

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  • Driven to the Field

    Sharecropping and Southern Literature

    Series series The American South Series
    Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping—crucial to understanding life in the southern United States—from Emancipation to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of literature in their historical context, David A. Davis demonstrates how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to resonate in American culture. Following the end of slavery, ... Leer más

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  • Southern Comforts

    Drinking and the U.S. South

    Series series Southern Literary Studies
    Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South.Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and ... Leer más

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  • Great War Modernism

    Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918

    New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore and clarify the position of the so-called ‘core’ of literary modernism in its seminal engagement with ... Leer más

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  • World War I and Southern Modernism

    Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty PrizeWhen the United States entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South lagged behind, remaining an impoverished, agriculture region. Despite New South boosterism, the culture of the early twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically arid. Yet, southern writers ... Leer más

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  • Writing in the Kitchen

    Essays on Southern Literature and Foodways

    Edición de David A. Davis, Tara Powell ...
    Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry again. Vardaman Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner's Jefferson, and the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products associated with the South, the connections between them have not been thoroughly explored until now.Southern food has become the subject of ... Leer más

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  • North Carolina Slave Narratives

    The Lives of Moses Roper, Lunsford Lane, Moses Grandy, and Thomas H. Jones

    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    The autobiographies of former slaves contributed powerfully to the abolitionist movement in the United States, fanning national — even international — indignation against the evils of slavery. The four texts gathered here are all from North Carolina slaves and are among the most memorable and influential slave narratives published in the nineteenth century. The writings of Moses Roper (1838), ... Leer más

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  • Away Down South : A History of Southern Identity

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