The Oxford book of the American South : testimony, memory, and fiction /
The Oxford Book of the American South resonates with the words of black people and white, women and men, the powerless as well as the powerful. The collection presents the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present. Renowned authors such...
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1997.
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Table of Contents:
- from Travels / William Bartram
- from The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African / Olaudah Equiano
- from Notes on the state of Virginia / Thomas Jefferson
- from the Reverend Francis Asbury's journal / Francis Asbury
- from The confessions of Nat Turner / Nat Turner
- from Georgia scenes / Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
- from Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass / Frederick Douglass
- from Social relations in our Southern states / Daniel R. Hundley
- from Incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs
- from The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain
- from The mind of the South / W.J. Cash
- from The making of a Southerner / Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
- from The confessions of Nat Turner / William Styron
- from Dessa Rose / Sherley Anne Williams
- from The Civil War diary of Sarah Morgan / Sarah Morgan
- from "Co. Aytch" / Sam Watkins
- from Red hills and cotton: an upcountry memory / Ben Robertson
- from Know nothing / Mary Lee Settle
- from The legacy of the Civil War / Robert Penn Warren
- from Jubilee / Margaret Walker
- "Dragged fighting from his tomb" / Barry Hannah
- "Shiloh" / Bobbie Ann Mason
- "Letter to the Union Convention, 1865" / Black Citizens of Tennessee
- "Dave's neckliss" / Charles W. Chesnutt
- "The little convent girl" / Grace King
- "Desiree's baby" / Kate Chopin
- from Up from slavery / Booker T. Washington
- from The souls of Black folk / W.E.B. Du Bois
- from The deliverance / Ellen Glasgow
- "Wash" / William Faulkner
- from Gone with the wind / Margaret Mitchell
- from I'll take my stand / Twelve Southerners
- from "Boom town" / Thomas Wolfe
- "Kneel to the rising sun" / Erskine Caldwell
- from Their eyes were watching God / Zora Neale Hurston
- "Death of a traveling salesman" / Eudora Welty
- from Lanterns on the levee / William Alexander Percy
- from Let us now praise famous men / James Agee
- from Black boy / Richard Wright
- from Invisible man / Ralph Ellison
- from I know why the caged bird sings / Maya Angelou
- from Train whistle guitar / Albert Murray
- from A childhood, the biography of a place / Harry Crews
- from Oral history / Lee Smith
- from I am one of you forever / Fred Chappell
- from Killers of the dream / Lillian Smith
- "Letter from Birmingham jail" / Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "Everything that rises must converge" / Flannery O'Connor
- from The last gentleman / Walker Percy
- from North toward home / Willie Morris
- "The sky is gray" / Ernest J. Gaines
- from Meridan / Alice Walker
- "Why I like country music" / James Alan McPherson
- "Good-bye, good-bye, be always kind and true" / George Garrett
- from Keeper of the moon: a Southern boyhood / Tim McLaurin
- "The decline and fall of the Episcopal Church (in the year of our Lord 1952)" / Peter Taylor
- from Salvation on Sand Mountain / Dennis Covington
- from Mississippi: an American Journey / Anthony Walton.