Southern Selves from Mark Twain and Eudora Welty to Maya Angelou and Kaye Gibbons a Collection of Autobiographical Writing
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 08/01/1998
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A vibrant collective picture of the American South from both sides of the color line.
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The memoir seeks to capture not only the self but a world, and the world of the American South is brilliantly served up by the thirty-one authors brought together in this collection of memoirs and autobiographical writings.
Whether slave or master, intellectual or "redneck", each of the superb writers in this moving and poetic volume confirms that Southern artists, for all their diversity, have been nurtured in their region's rich storytelling tradition, its quirky sense of humor, its almost mystical feeling for place, and its undying sense of the past.
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