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Writing the South through the Self: Explorations in Southern Autobiography<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Georgia Press<\/a>
\n2011-05-01
\n246 pages
\n6 x 9
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8203-3767-8
\nEbook ISBN: 978-0-8203-3968-9<\/p>\n

John C. Inscoe<\/a><\/strong>, Albert B. Saye Professor and University Professor of History
\nUniversity of Georgia<\/em><\/p>\n

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Using autobiography as an invaluable means for understanding southern history<\/em><\/p>\n

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 value of these narratives, Inscoe argues that they offer exceptional means of teaching young people because the authors focus so fully on their confrontations\u2014as children, adolescents, and young adults\u2014with aspects of southern life that they found to be troublesome, perplexing, or challenging.
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\nMaya Angelou<\/a>, Rick Bragg<\/a>, Jimmy Carter<\/a>, Bessie<\/a> and Sadie Delany<\/a>, Willie Morris<\/a>, Pauli Murray<\/a>, Lillian Smith<\/a>, and Thomas Wolfe<\/a> are among the more prominent of the many writers, both famous and obscure, upon whom Inscoe draws to construct a composite portrait of the South at its most complex and diverse. The power of place; struggles with racial, ethnic, and class identities; the strength and strains of family; educational opportunities both embraced and thwarted\u2014all are themes that infuse the works in this most intimate and humanistic of historical genres.
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\nFull of powerful and poignant stories, anecdotes, and testimonials, Writing the South through the Self<\/em> explores the emotional and psychological dimensions of what it has meant to be southern and offers us new ways of understanding the forces that have shaped southern identity in such multifaceted ways.<\/p>\n

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