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Author: Loretta Merrell Ekis Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781490356310 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
This book depicts some Southern traditions, a few the peculiar expressions, recipes, and memories of an earlier time, all in a lighthearted glimpse of the South and Southerners. Whether you're from the Deep South or the coastal areas, you'll find yourself nodding and saying, Oh, yes. That's the way it was when I was growing up in the South. It also reflects on what has made the South different in many ways to other areas of the country, and bemoans the fact that the South, as is every area of the country, is becoming homogenized. This is an attempt to record for history some of the South's unique characteristics.
Author: Loretta Merrell Ekis Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781490356310 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 162
Book Description
This book depicts some Southern traditions, a few the peculiar expressions, recipes, and memories of an earlier time, all in a lighthearted glimpse of the South and Southerners. Whether you're from the Deep South or the coastal areas, you'll find yourself nodding and saying, Oh, yes. That's the way it was when I was growing up in the South. It also reflects on what has made the South different in many ways to other areas of the country, and bemoans the fact that the South, as is every area of the country, is becoming homogenized. This is an attempt to record for history some of the South's unique characteristics.
Author: Judy Light Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1453595147 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 89
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This story is about my mother, father and my family. It is a fast read that will take you on a journey of my parents. I grew up with my mother and I remember her telling me stories about her past and her journey with my father. I have taken what she told me and put it into this story for all of the children that started with these two people. My mother, Winnie, would have never thought how important she had been to this family structure. Most mornings, she would just sit there, drink her coffee, smoke her cigarette and every so often sing a lyric from “The Old Rugged Cross”. She was a wonderful individual who always believed that tomorrow would be a better day. It all started along the Arkansas River and with these two people...Grover Cleveland Light and Winifred Beatrice Smith. Read and enjoy.
Author: Charles Reagan Wilson Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469664992 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 615
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How does one begin to understand the idea of a distinctive southern way of life—a concept as enduring as it is disputed? In this examination of the American South in national and global contexts, celebrated historian Charles Reagan Wilson assesses how diverse communities of southerners have sought to define the region's identity. Surveying three centuries of southern regional consciousness across many genres, disciplines, and cultural strains, Wilson considers and challenges prior presentations of the region, advancing a vision of southern culture that has always been plural, dynamic, and complicated by race and class. Structured in three parts, The Southern Way of Life takes readers on a journey from the colonial era to the present, from when complex ideas of "southern civilization" rooted in slaveholding and agrarianism dominated to the twenty-first-century rise of a modern, multicultural "southern living." As Wilson shows, there is no singular or essential South but rather a rich tapestry woven with contestations, contingencies, and change.
Author: Stephen Deusner Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 1477323937 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 295
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In 1996, Patterson Hood recruited friends and fellow musicians in Athens, Georgia, to form his dream band: a group with no set lineup that specialized in rowdy rock and roll. The Drive-By Truckers, as they named themselves, grew into one of the best and most consequential rock bands of the twenty-first century, a great live act whose songs deliver the truth and nuance rarely bestowed on Southerners, so often reduced to stereotypes. Where the Devil Don’t Stay tells the band’s unlikely story not chronologically but geographically. Seeing the Truckers’ albums as roadmaps through a landscape that is half-real, half-imagined, their fellow Southerner Stephen Deusner travels to the places the band’s members have lived in and written about. Tracking the band from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Richmond, Virginia, to the author’s hometown in McNairy County, Tennessee, Deusner explores the Truckers’ complex relationship to the South and the issues of class, race, history, and religion that run through their music. Drawing on new interviews with past and present band members, including Jason Isbell, Where the Devil Don’t Stay is more than the story of a great American band; it’s a reflection on the power of music and how it can frame and shape a larger culture.
Author: Kiese Laymon Publisher: Scribner ISBN: 1982170824 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 176
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A New York Times Notable Book A revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR). Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This new edition of award-winning author Kiese Laymon’s first work of nonfiction looks inward, drawing heavily on the author and his family’s experiences, while simultaneously examining the world—Mississippi, the South, the United States—that has shaped their lives. With subjects that range from an interview with his mother to reflections on Ole Miss football, Outkast, and the labor of Black women, these thirteen insightful essays highlight Laymon’s profound love of language and his artful rendering of experience, trumpeting why he is “simply one of the most talented writers in America” (New York magazine).
Author: Sean Dietrich Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781515019183 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 152
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The first volume of a collection of short stories by Sean Dietrich, a writer, humorist, and novelist, known for his commentary on life in the American South. His humor and short fiction appear in various publications throughout the Southeast.
Author: Steven M. Stowe Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 146964097X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 228
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Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War. War surprised, devastated, and opened up imagination, taking hold of Americans' words as well as their homes and families. The personal diary—wildly ragged yet rooted in day following day—was one place Americans wrote their war. Diaries, then, have become one of the best-known, most-used sources for exploring the life of the mind in a war-torn place and time. Delving into several familiar wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. Whether the diarists recorded thoughts about themselves, their opinions about men, or their observations about slavery, race, and warfare, Stowe shows how these women, by writing the immediate moment, found meaning in a changing world. In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance—and the limits—of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past, demonstrating how these plain, first-draft texts can offer new ways to make sense of the world in which these Confederate women lived.
Author: John T. Edge Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469616521 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 333
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When the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture was published in 1989, the topic of foodways was relatively new as a field of scholarly inquiry. Food has always been central to southern culture, but the past twenty years have brought an explosion in interest in foodways, particularly in the South. This volume marks the first encyclopedia of the food culture of the American South, surveying the vast diversity of foodways within the region and the collective qualities that make them distinctively southern. Articles in this volume explore the richness of southern foodways, examining not only what southerners eat but also why they eat it. The volume contains 149 articles, almost all of them new to this edition of the Encyclopedia. Longer essays address the historical development of southern cuisine and ethnic contributions to the region's foodways. Topical essays explore iconic southern foods such as MoonPies and fried catfish, prominent restaurants and personalities, and the food cultures of subregions and individual cities. The volume is destined to earn a spot on kitchen shelves as well as in libraries.
Author: Loretta Merrell Ekis
Author: Loretta Merrell Ekis
Author: Judy Light
Author: Dwight Holt
Author: Charles Reagan Wilson
Author: Stephen Deusner
Author: Michael Andrew Grissom
Author: Kiese Laymon
Author: Sean Dietrich
Author: Steven M. Stowe
Author: John T. Edge