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I Don't Hate the South

Houston A. Baker
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      I Don't Hate The South takes its title from the famous declaration by Faulkner's character Quentin Compson in the novel Absalom, Absalom!. The book traces Baker's own ambivalent relationship to the South and its various protocols of family and black expressive cultural independence through a memoiristic recounting of the author's various academic posts, family dramas, travels, and engagements with that most famous of southern authors, WilliamFaulkner as well as the black expressive "experimentalists" Percival Everett and Ralph Ellison. 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. W. E. B. Du Bois noted: "As the South goes, so goes the nation!" Houston Baker sets out toshow the present-day wisdom of Du Bois's observation in a post-Hurricane Katrina moment of national family crisis. 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Houston A. Baker EAN: 9780195084290 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 374 g HEIGHT: 215 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-10-04 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black WIDTH: 147 cm SPINE:

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      20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: general, History of the Americas

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      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, andAfro-American Literature.
      I Don't Hate The South takes its title from the famous declaration by Faulkner's character Quentin Compson in the novel Absalom, Absalom!. The book traces Baker's own ambivalent relationship to the South and its various protocols of family and black expressive cultural independence through a memoiristic recounting of the author's various academic posts, family dramas, travels, and engagements with that most famous of southern authors, WilliamFaulkner as well as the black expressive "experimentalists" Percival Everett and Ralph Ellison. 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. W. E. B. Du Bois noted: "As the South goes, so goes the nation!" Houston Baker sets out toshow the present-day wisdom of Du Bois's observation in a post-Hurricane Katrina moment of national family crisis. 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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Houston A. Baker EAN: 9780195084290 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 374 g HEIGHT: 215 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Oxford University Press Inc DATE PUBLISHED: 2007-10-04 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black WIDTH: 147 cm SPINE:

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      20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: general, History of the Americas

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      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, andAfro-American Literature.

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