The Southern Highlander and His Homeland
The Southern Highlander and His Homeland

Author: John Charles Campbell

Publisher:

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13:

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" In 1908 John C. Campbell was commissioned by the Russell Sage Foundation to conduct a survey of conditions in Appalachia and the aid work being done in these areas to create "the central repository of data concerning conditions in the mountains to which workers in the field might turn." Originally published in 1921, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland details Campbell's experiences and findings during his travels in the region, observing unique aspects of mountain communities such as their religion, family life, and forms of entertainment. Campbell's landmark work paved the way for folk schools, agricultural cooperatives, handicraft guilds, the frontier nursing service, better roads, and a sense of pride in mountain life -- the very roots of Appalachian preservation.

The Impending Crisis of the South
The Impending Crisis of the South

Author: Hinton Rowan Helper

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-04-29

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 3382319578

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape
William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape

Author: Charles Shelton Aiken

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0820332194

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Charles S. Aiken, a native of Mississippi who was born a few miles from Oxford, has been thinking and writing about the geography of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County for more than thirty years. William Faulkner and the Southern Landscape is the culmination of that long-term scholarly project. It is a fresh approach to a much-studied writer and a provocative meditation on the relationship between literary imagination and place. Four main geographical questions shape Aiken's journey to the family seat of the Compsons and the Snopeses. What patterns and techniques did Faulkner use--consciously or subconsciously--to convert the real geography of Lafayette County into a fictional space? Did Faulkner intend Yoknapatawpha to serve as a microcosm of the American South? In what ways does the historical geography of Faulkner's birthplace correspond to that of the fictional world he created? Finally, what geographic legacy has Faulkner left us through the fourteen novels he set in Yoknapatawpha? With an approach, methodology, and sources primarily derived from historical geography, Aiken takes the reader on a tour of Faulkner's real and imagined worlds. The result is an informed reading of Faulkner's life and work and a refined understanding of the relation of literary worlds to the real places that inspire them.

A Southern Weave of Women
A Southern Weave of Women

Author: Linda Tate

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780820318509

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A Southern Weave of Women is one of the first sustained treatments of the generation women writers who came of age in the post-World War II South as well as one of the first to situate southern literature fully within a multicultural context

The Southern Appalachian Region
The Southern Appalachian Region

Author: Thomas R. Ford

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0813165172

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The Southern Appalachian Region is the largest American "problem area"—an area whose participation in the economic growth of the nation has not been sufficient to relieve the chronic poverty of its people. The existence of the problem was recognized a generation ago, but in the past decade the resistance of such areas to economic advance has acquired a more urgent significance in American thought. In 1958, a group of scholars undertook to make a new survey of the Southern Appalachian Region. Aided by grants from the Ford Foundation ultimately amounting to $250,000, they set out to analyze the direction and extent of the changes which had taken place since the last survey (in1935), to define the problem in terms of the present situation, and—if possible—to arrive at recommendations for action which might enable the leaders of the Region and the nation to attack the problem with practical measures. In this volume are presented their comprehensive reports on the Region's population, its economy, its institutions, and its culture. The problems defined by this survey are a challenge to the whole nation, for the consequences of success or failure in solving them will not be limited to the Southern Appalachian Region.

Bluegrass Breakdown
Bluegrass Breakdown

Author: Robert Cantwell

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780252071171

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Bluegrass music is an original characterization, simply called a 'representation, ' of traditional Appalachian music in its social form.