Author: Erskine CaldwellPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Kneel to the rising sun
Author: Erskine CaldwellKneel to the Rising Sun
Author: Erskine CaldwellKneel to the Rising Sun, Etc
Author: Erskine CaldwellKneel Rising Sun
Author: Brenda JacksonPublisher: Signet
ISBN: 9780451017338
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Witnessing Lynching
Author: Anne P. RicePublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813533308
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Their words provide today's reader with a chance to witness lynching and better understand the current state of race relations in America."--BOOK JACKET.
The People's Writer
Author: Wayne MixonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813916279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Most critics have considered Caldwell to be only a minor southern writer, often associating him with his worst writing. Yet Saul Bellow suggested he deserved the Nobel Prize, and William Faulkner once characterized him as one of the five best writers of his time, alongside himself, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, and John Dos Passos.
Index to Short Stories
Author: Opportunity
Author: Call it Experience
Author: Erskine CaldwellPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820318493
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In this candid view of the hardships and rewards of the writer's life, Erskine Caldwell recalls his first thirty years as a writer, with special emphasis on his long and hard apprenticeship before he emerged as one of the most widely read and controversial authors of his time. All the while conveying the enormous amount of drive and dedication with which he pursued his calling, Caldwell tells of his struggles to find his own voice, his travels, and his various jobs, which ranged from backbreaking manual labor to much sought-after positions in radio, film, and journalism. Including a self-interview, Call It Experience offers a wealth of insights into Caldwell's imagination and his writing habits, as well as his views on critics and reviewers, publishers, and booksellers. It is a source of information and inspiration to aspiring writers.
A Question of Class
Author: Duane CarrPublisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879727222
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"Rednecks" have long been subjects of scorn and ridicule, especially in the South because of an antebellum caste and class system, parts of which persist to this day. In A Question of Class, Carr probes the historical and sociological reasons for the descent of "rednecks" into poverty, their inability to rise above it, and their continuing subjugation to a stereotype developed by others and too often accepted by themselves. Carr also records the progress in southern fiction of this negative stereotype - from antebellum writers who saw "rednecks" as threats to the social order, to post-Civil War writers who lamented the lost potential of these people and urged sympathy and understanding, to modern writers who reverted, in some sense, to Old South attitudes, and finally, to contemporary writers who point toward a more democratic acceptance of this much maligned group.