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Writing the South through the self : explorations in southern autobiography / John C. Inscoe.

Author/creator Inscoe, John C., 1951-
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoAthens : University of Georgia Press,
Descriptionxv, 249 p. ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Contents Lessons from southern lives : teaching race through autobiography -- "I learn what I am" : adolescent struggles with mixed-race identity -- "All manner of defeated, shiftless, shifty, pathetic and interesting good people" : autobiographical encounters with southern white poverty -- Railroads, race, and remembrance : the traumas of train travel in the Jim Crow South -- "I'm better than this sorry place" : coming to terms with self and the South in college -- Sense of place, sense of being : Appalachian struggles with identity, belonging, and escape -- Afterword. "Getting pretty fed up with this two-tone South" : moving toward multiculturalism.
General note"Published in association with the Georgia Humanities Council."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-239) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010032652
ISBN9780820337678 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0820337676 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780820337685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0820337684 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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