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Weird South - Ecologies Of Unknowing In Postplantation Literature

by Melanie Benson Taylor

~~27,76€~~ 24,98€ 10% OFF

 How do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled landscapes? Put simply, how do we parse the levels of human responsibility--both for apocalypse and for deliverance--in contexts where settler-colonial and racial capitalist histories dramatically shape our reality? Reading modern and contemporary southern literary texts from a variety of perspectives, these lectures engage the new materialist, object-oriented ontologies that critique and decenter human agency while uncovering the lasting, determinative, haunting realities of humanity’s detention within what Timothy Morton calls the "weird" web of our entwined social, racial, economic, and natural ecologies. As a concept in the burgeoning conversation about Anthropocenic disaster and climate emergency, the "weird" is a powerful way to conceptualize not just human hubris but also humility: we are no different from, no more powerful than, any other living or inanimate objects—neither the organisms that take up residence in our bodies nor the myriad things that we imagine we create, fashion, patrol, and control.
Hidden In Plain Sight - Slave Capitalism In Poe, Hawthorne, And Joel Chandler Harris

by John T. Matthews

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 For as long as the United States owed its prosperity to a New World plantation complex, from colonial settlement until well into the twentieth century, the toxic practices associated with its permutations stimulated imaginary solutions to the contradiction with the nation’s enlightenment ideals and republican ideology. Ideals of liberty, democracy, and individualism could not be separated from a history of forcible coercion, oligarchic power, and state-protected economic opportunism. While recent historical scholarship about the relation of capitalism to slavery explores the depths at which U.S. ascension was indebted to global plantation slave economies, John T. Matthews probes how exemplary works of literature represented the determination to deny the open secret of a national atrocity. Difficult truths were hidden in plain sight, allowing beholders at once to recognize and disavow knowledge they would not act on. What were the habits of mind that enabled free Americans to acknowledge what was intolerable yet act as if they did not? In what ways did non-slave-owning Americans imagine a relation to slavery that both admitted its iniquity and accepted its benefits? How did the reconfiguration of the plantation system after the Civil War elicit new literary forms for dealing with its perpetuation of racial injustice, expropriation of labor, and exploitation for profit of the land? Hidden in Plain Sight examines signal nineteenth-century works by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Joel Chandler Harris to show how writers portrayed a nation founded on the unseen seen of slavery’s capitalism.
Blind No More - African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, And The Coming Of The Civil War

by Jonathan Daniel Wells

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 With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and pre-Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union. Jonathan Daniel Wells explores the cause of disunion as the persistent determination on the part of enslaved people that they would flee bondage no matter the risks. By protesting against kidnappings and fugitive slave renditions, they brought slavery to the doorstep of the free states, forcing those states to recognize the meaning of freedom and the meaning of states’ rights in the face of a federal government equally determined to keep standing its divided house. Through these actions, African Americans helped northerners and westerners question whether the constitutional compact was still worth upholding, a reevaluation of the republican experiment that would ultimately lead not just to Civil War but to the Thirteenth Amendment, ending slavery. Wells contends that the real story of American freedom lay not with the Confederate rebels nor even with the Union army but instead rests with the tens of thousands of self-emancipated men and women who demonstrated to the Founders, and to succeeding generations of Americans, the value of liberty.
Colonial Southern Bookshelf - Reading In The Eighteenth Century

by Richard Beale Davis

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 A Colonial Southern Bookshelf studies popular books among southern readers in eighteenth-century America. From booksellers’ lists and sale catalogs, Richard Beale Davis’s study focuses on three key groups of literature: books in law, politics, and history; books on religious topics; and belles lettres. His examination of the colonial southern library suggests many revealing conclusions: persons of many social and economic levels owned and read books; literacy was more widespread than many historians have perceived; the vast majority of the books in southern libraries were published in England and Europe; and colonial newspapers constituted an important influence on cultural tastes. A Colonial Southern Bookshelf takes a historical look at the popular reading lists of the time and what they say about society in eighteenth-century America. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Adams And Jefferson - A Revolutionary Dialogue

by Merrill D. Peterson

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 Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue documents the public lives and personal friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, from their first meeting as delegates to the Second Continental Congress to their deaths on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
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Becoming Confederates - Paths To A New National Loyalty

by Gary W. Gallagher

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 Gallagher explores loyalty in the Civil War era, focusing on Robert E. Lee, Stephen Dodson Ramseur, and Jubal A. Earlyâ€"officers in the Army of Northern Virginia who became ardent Confederate nationalists. Looking at levels of allegiance to their native state, Gallagher shows how these men represent responses to the mid-nineteenth-century crisis.
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The Weird South - Ecologies Of Unknowing In Postplantation Literature

by Melanie Benson Taylor

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The Weird South - Ecologies Of Unknowing In Postplantation Literature

by Melanie Benson Taylor

~~27,76€~~ 24,98€ 10% OFF

 How do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled landscapes? Put simply, how do we parse the levels of human responsibility--both for apocalypse and for deliverance--in contexts where settler-colonial and racial capitalist histories dramatically shape our reality? Reading modern and contemporary southern literary texts from a variety of perspectives, these lectures engage the new materialist, object-oriented ontologies that critique and decenter human agency while uncovering the lasting, determinative, haunting realities of humanity’s detention within what Timothy Morton calls the "weird" web of our entwined social, racial, economic, and natural ecologies. As a concept in the burgeoning conversation about Anthropocenic disaster and climate emergency, the "weird" is a powerful way to conceptualize not just human hubris but also humility: we are no different from, no more powerful than, any other living or inanimate objects—neither the organisms that take up residence in our bodies nor the myriad things that we imagine we create, fashion, patrol, and control.
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The Zombie Memes Of Dixie

by Scott Romine

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 This book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South—for example, that it has been shaped by a warm climate; that its people are hospitable and enjoy a slower pace of life; that it is characterized by localist tendencies and possesses a distinctive sense of place. Approaching these propositions as memes—that is, group-forming replicators—Scott Romine argues that many of them developed in defense of slavery and evolved in its aftermath to continue to form a southern group whose "way of life" naturalized an emergent regime of segregation. Following the civil rights era, another set of mutations allowed the ostensible inclusion of groups heretofore excluded from the category "southerner," mostly through the conceptualization of a "culture" projected backward into time. By attending closely to the historical formation and mutation of the things southerners have most often said that they are, we can better understand the dynamic and dialogic process of group formation in the U.S. South.
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Origins Of A Southern Mosaic - Studies Of Early Carolina And Georgia

by Clarence L. Ver Steeg e Clarence Ver Steeg

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 Origins of a Southern Mosaic explores the distinct, individual, and separate states that made up the colonial South. This volume contains four expanded lectures delivered in 1974 by Clarence L. Ver Steeg, professor of history at Northwestern University, as part of the annual Lamar Memorial Lectures at Mercer University. These lectures offer insight into the unique political and social backgrounds of Georgia and the Carolinas and the ways in which the individual backgrounds of these states come together to form a "quilt-like mosaic," with identifiable enclaves that contribute a special quality to the whole. The Georgia Open History Library has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this collection, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Hidden In Plain Sight - Slave Capitalism In Poe, Hawthorne, And Joel Chandler Harris

by John T. Matthews

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 Difficult truths were hidden in plain sight, allowing beholders at once to recognize and disavow knowledge they would not act on. What were the habits of mind that enabled free Americans to acknowledge what was intolerable yet act as if they did not?
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Teaching Equality - Black Schools In The Age Of Jim Crow

by Adam Fairclough

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 Fairclough provides an overview of the enormous contributions made by African American teachers to the black freedom movement in the United States. Beginning with the close of the Civil War, he explores the development of educational ideals in the black community up through the years of the civil rights movement.
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Red Clay, White Water, And Blues - A History Of Columbus, Georgia

by Virginia E. Causey

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 A new history for a major Georgia city.
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Fighting To Preserve A Nation'S Soul - America'S Ecumenical War On Poverty

by Robert Bauman

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 Provides the first book-length study of the contributions of religious leaders to the War on Poverty, and it demonstrates their centrality to that effort, both in supporting OEO director Sargent Shriver through their public testimony and lobbying efforts, and in co-funding and sponsoring community action programs.
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Blind No More - African American Resistance, Free-Soil Politics, And The Coming Of The Civil War

by Jonathan Daniel Wells

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 With a fresh interpretation of African American resistance to kidnapping and preâ€"Civil War political culture, Blind No More sheds new light on the coming of the Civil War by focusing on a neglected truism: the antebellum free states experienced a dramatic ideological shift that questioned the value of the Union.
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George Washington And The American Military Tradition

by Don Higginbotham

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 Don Higginbotham investigates the interplay of militiaman and professional soldier, of soldier and legislator, that shaped George Washingtonâ€™s military career and ultimately fostered the victory that brought independence to our nation.
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Fallen Forests - Emotion, Embodiment, And Ethics In American Women'S Environmental Writing, 1781-1924

by Karen L. Kilcup

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 Fallen Forests contributes to scholarship in American women's writing, ecofeminism, ecocriticism, and feminist rhetoric, expanding the literary, historical, and theoretical grounds for some of today's most pressing environmental debates.
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Myths And Men - Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson

by Bernard Mayo

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 Mayo presents in lecture form three case histories that abundantly illustrate the uses and abuses of history, revealing how the flesh-and-blood men, humanly fallible yet with the inspiring qualities of greatness, have been distorted and obscured by conflicting interpretations and by myths that defame and myths that glorify.
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Southern Writers In The Modern World

by Donald Davidson

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 Especially concerned with the relationship of these new writers to their literary predecessors, Hobson traces the continuityâ€"or lack of continuityâ€"of certain attitudes, fictional approaches, and even values that informed southern writing during its earlier flowering in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
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Conventional Wisdom - The Alternate Article V Mechanism For Proposing Amendments To The U.S. Constitution

by John R. Vile

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 Vile surveys more than two centuries of scholarship on Article V and concludes that the weight of the evidence indicates that states and Congress have the legal right to limit the scope of such conventions to a single subject and that political considerations would make a runaway convention unlikely.
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Weaving Alliances With Other Women - Chitimacha Indian Work In The New South

by Daniel H. Usner

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 River-cane baskets woven by the Chitimachas of south Louisiana are admired for their beauty and workmanship. Recounting friendships that Chitimacha weaver Christine Paul (1874â€"1946) sustained with two non-Native womenat different parts of her life, this book offers a rare vantage point into the lives of American Indians in the segregated South.
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An Introductory Guide To Post-Structuralism And Postmodernism

by Madan Sarup

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 Sarup has revised his accessible and popular introduction to post-structuralist and postmodern theory. In tracing the impact of post-structuralist thought not only on literary criticism but on such disciplines as philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, the social sciences, and art, this book is essential reading.
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Samuel Johnson And The Age Of Travel

by Thomas M. Curley

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 Drawing extensively on Johnsonâ€™s entire canon, the works of his contemporaries, and a vast store of much neglected travel books, Curley places Johnsonâ€™s love of travel and travel literature firmly in its literary and historical contexts.
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