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9780321094162

Voices of the American South

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  • Copyright: 2005-01-01
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Summary

Voices of the American South is a comprehensive survey of pivotal works in the Southern literary tradition. The historical organization of the text, the lively and contextualized introductions and headnotes, and the inclusion of clustered selections inform readers about relevant themes of Southern literature, while providing the historically uninformed reader with various and interesting entry points into the text. Those interested in reading and learning more about southern literature.

Table of Contents

Preface xvi
Part I Antebellum Period, Beginnings Through 1860
1(150)
John Smith
14(7)
from General Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles
Chapter 5: The Accidents that hapned in the Discovery of the Bay of Chisapeack
15(6)
Ebenezer Cook(E)
21(16)
The Sotweed Factor, &c.
21(16)
William Byrd
37(7)
from History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina Run in the Year of Our Lord 1728
38(6)
Thomas Jefferson
44(15)
from Autobiography
46(4)
from Notes on the State of Virginia
Query XIV: Laws
50(5)
Query XVIII: Manners
55(1)
from Climate and American Character
To Chastellux, Paris, Sep. 2, 1785
56(1)
from African Colonization
To the Governor of Virginia (James Monroe), Washington, Nov. 24, 1801
57(2)
William J. Grayson
59(5)
from The Hireling and the Slave
60(4)
Caroline Howard Gilman
64(5)
from Recollections of a Southern Matron
Chapter 35: The Planter's Bride
65(4)
John Pendleton Kennedy
69(17)
from Swallow Barn, or A Sojurn in the Old Dominion
Introductory Epistle
70(6)
Chapter II: A Country Gentleman
76(4)
Chapter XLVI: The Quarter
80(6)
George Moses Horton
86(2)
George Moses Horton, Myself
87(1)
Division of an Estate
87(1)
William Gilmore Simms
88(8)
from Woodcraft or Hawks About the Dovecote
Chapter 66: The Grapes Are Sour!
89(7)
Edgar Allan Poe
96(15)
To Helen
99(1)
Israfel
99(2)
The Raven
101(2)
Sonnet---To Science
103(1)
Annabel Lee
103(1)
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
104(7)
Voices in Context: Southwestern Humor
111(40)
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
112(6)
from Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, and etc., in the First Half Century of the Republic: by a Native Georgian
The Dance. A Personal Adventure of the Author
113(5)
George Washington Harris
118(7)
Sut at a Negro Night-Meeting
119(6)
Johnson Jones Hooper
125(7)
from Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of The Tallapoosa Volunteers
The Captain Attends a Camp-Meeting
126(6)
Thomas Bangs Thorpe
132(9)
from The Hive of the Bee Hunter
The Big Bear of Arkansas
133(8)
Henry Clay Lewis
141(10)
Stealing a Baby
142(3)
A Struggle for Life
145(6)
Part II Civil War and Reconstruction Eras, 1861-1865 and 1866-1880
151(252)
John C. Calhoun
161(8)
The South Carolina Exposition, 1828
162(3)
The South Carolina Protest, 1828
165(1)
Speech on the Reception of Abolition Petitions, February 16, 1837, Revised Report
166(3)
Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz
169(35)
from The Planter's Northern Bride
Chapter I
170(8)
Chapter II
178(15)
Chapter XX
193(11)
Angelina Emily Grimke
204(5)
from Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
205(4)
Robert E. Lee
209(4)
Selected Letters
210(3)
Jefferson Davis
213(19)
Farewell Address
215(3)
Second Inaugural Address
218(3)
Speech at Jackson, Miss.
221(11)
Abraham Lincoln
232(10)
A House Divided
233(5)
Letter to Horace Greeley
238(1)
Emancipation Proclamation
239(1)
The Gettysburg Address
240(1)
Second Inaugural Address
241(1)
Louisa Susanna Cheves McCord
242(7)
from Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin
243(6)
Harriet Jacobs
249(12)
from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Chapter 1: Childhood
250(2)
Chapter 2: The New Master and Mistress
252(4)
Chapter 5: The Trials of Girlhood
256(2)
Chapter 10: A Perilous Passage in a Slave Girl's Life
258(3)
Elizabeth Keckley
261(15)
from Behind the Scenes
Chapter 2: Girlhood and Its Sorrows
262(3)
Chapter 3: How I Gained My Freedom
265(5)
Chapter 10: The Second Inauguration
270(6)
Frederick Douglass
276(24)
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July
277(7)
Fighting the Rebels with One Hand
An Address Delivered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 14 January 1862
284(10)
What the Black Man Wants
294(6)
Henry Timrod
300(9)
Carolina
301(2)
Charleston
303(1)
Ethnogenesis
304(2)
Christmas
306(2)
The Unknown Dead
308(1)
John Esten Cooke
309(16)
from Surry of Eagle's-Nest or The Memoirs of a Staff-Officer Serving in Virginia
Chapter 131: The Last Greeting Between Stuart and Jackson
311(5)
from Mohun or The Last of Lee and His Paladins: Final Memoirs of a Staff Officer Serving in Virginia
Chapter 26: The Charge of the Virginians
316(4)
Chapter 29: The Surrender
320(1)
Epilogue
321(4)
Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
325(16)
from Macaria or Altars of Sacrifice
Dedication
326(1)
Chapter XXX
327(8)
Chapter XXXVI
335(6)
The Tennessee Civil War Veterans' Questionnaires
341(7)
Civil War Questionnaires
Cheney, Hampton J.
341(5)
Civil War Questionnaires
England, David S.
346(2)
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
348(16)
from Life on the Mississippi
Chapter XLI: The Metropolis of the South
350(2)
Chapter XLVI: Enchantments and Enchanters
352(2)
The Supressed Chapter
354(3)
Journalism in Tennessee
357(4)
Plymouth Rock and the Pilgrims
361(1)
Address at the First Annual Dinner, N.E. Society, Philadelphia, Dec. 22, 1881
361(3)
Voices in Context: Confederate Women's Civil War Diaries
364(39)
Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut
366(7)
from Mary Chesnut's Civil War
367(6)
Kate Cumming
373(14)
from Kate: The Journal of a Confederate Nurse
374(13)
Sarah Morgan
387(16)
from The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan
388(15)
Part III Rebuilding and Repression, 1880-1910
403(134)
George Washington Cable
412(16)
The Voodoos
413(4)
Belles Demoiselles Plantation
417(11)
Joel Chandler Harris
428(12)
The Wonderful Tar Baby Story
429(1)
How Mr. Rabbit Was Too Sharp for Mr. Fox
430(1)
Why the Negro Is Black
431(1)
Free Joe and the Rest of the World
432(8)
Kate Chopin
440(16)
Desiree's Baby
441(3)
At the 'Cadian Ball
444(6)
The Story of an Hour
The Dream of an Hour
450(2)
Neg Creol
452(4)
Alcee Fortier
456(3)
from The Acadians of Louisiana and Their Dialect
457(2)
Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock)
459(14)
The ``Harnt'' That Walks Chilhowee
460(13)
Grace King
473(7)
A Crippled Hope
474(6)
Ruth McEnery Stuart
480(11)
Christmas Gifts
481(10)
Charles W. Chesnut
491(16)
The Wife of His Youth
492(7)
The Goophered Grapevine
499(8)
Thomas Nelson Page
507(11)
from Marse Chan
A Tale of Old Virginia
509(9)
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
518(10)
from The Clansman
from Book III---The Reign of Terror
520(3)
from Book IV---The Ku Klux Klan
523(5)
Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar-Nelson
528(9)
I Sit and Sew
529(1)
Little Miss Sophie
529(4)
from People of Color in Louisiana
533(4)
Part IV The Southern Renascence: Industrialism and the Emerging Modernist Voice, 1910-1956
537(272)
Voices in Context: The Fugitive Poets and the Southern Agrarians
551(258)
from I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition
Introduction: A Statement of Principles
552(5)
John Crowe Ransom
557(6)
Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
558(1)
Janet Waking
559(1)
The Equilibrists
560(1)
Antique Harvesters
561(2)
Robert Penn Warren
563(15)
Bearded Oaks
564(1)
Founding Fathers, Early-Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast USA
565(2)
Last Meeting
567(1)
from All the King's Men
568(10)
John Gould Fletcher
578(5)
The Evening Clouds
579(1)
from The Ghosts of an Old House
579(1)
The Stars
579(1)
Down the Mississippi
579(3)
The Unfamiliar House
582(1)
Donald Davidson
583(4)
Lee in the Mountains
584(3)
Allen Tate
587(7)
Ode to the Confederate Dead
588(3)
The Swimmers
591(3)
Anna Julia Cooper
594(7)
The Status of Woman in America
595(6)
James Weldon Johnson
601(6)
O Black and Unknown Bards
602(2)
Go Down Death---A Funeral Sermon
604(1)
The White Witch
605(2)
Ellen Glasgow
607(11)
from Dare's Gift
608(10)
William Alexander Percy
618(6)
from Lanterns on the Levee
from The Ku Klux Klan Comes and Goes
619(5)
H. L. Mencken
624(8)
The Sahara of the Bozart
625(7)
Elizabeth Madox Roberts
632(8)
The Sacrifice of the Maidens
633(7)
Anne Spencer
640(4)
At the Carnival
641(1)
I Have a Friend
642(1)
Innocence
642(1)
Dunbar
642(1)
White Things
643(1)
Letter to My Sister
643(1)
Katherine Anne Porter
644(5)
from The Old Order
The Grave
645(4)
Zora Neale Hurston
649(13)
from Mules and Men
Chapter Two
651(11)
Lyle Saxon
662(7)
from Children of Strangers
663(6)
Jean Toomer
669(5)
Reapers
670(1)
November Cotton Flower
671(1)
Becky
671(1)
Georgia Dusk
672(1)
Portrait in Georgia
673(1)
Caroline Gordon
674(7)
The Last Day in the Field
675(6)
Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin
681(7)
from The Making of a Southerner
from Book 3: A Child Inherits a Lost Cause
682(6)
William Faulkner
688(27)
Red Leaves
691(15)
Delta Autumn
706(9)
Lillian Smith
715(12)
from Strange Fruit
716(11)
Thomas Wolfe
727(7)
from You Can't Go Home Again
from Book 1, Chapter 3: The Microscopic Gentleman from Japan
729(5)
George Sessions Perry
734(7)
from Hold Autumn in Your Hand
735(6)
Richard Wright
741(11)
from Native Son
from Book 1, Fear
742(10)
James Agee
752(10)
from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
from Work
753(9)
W. J. Cash
762(7)
from The Mind of the South
764(5)
Margaret Mitchell
769(6)
from Gone With the Wind
770(5)
Sterling Brown
775(7)
Memphis Blues
776(2)
Slim in Atlanta
778(1)
Remembering Nat Turner
779(2)
Ma Rainey
781(1)
Arnaud (Arna) Wendell Bontemps
782(8)
A Summer Tragedy
783(7)
James Aswell
790(5)
from The Midsummer Fires
791(4)
Woody Guthrie
795(3)
Pretty Boy Floyd
796(1)
Blinding of Isaac Woodward
797(1)
Randall Jarrell
798(4)
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner
799(1)
Eighth Air Force
799(1)
A Camp in the Prussian Forest
800(1)
A Country Life
801(1)
Margaret Walker
802(7)
For My People
803(1)
Birmingham
804(1)
Southern Song
805(1)
Sorrow Home
806(1)
Kissie Lee
806(1)
Lineage
807(2)
Part V The Era of Civil Rights: The Second Generation, 1956--1974
809(262)
Voices in Context: Proletarian Writers of the South
821(250)
Olive Tilford Dargan (Fielding Burke)
822(7)
from Call Home the Heart
A Wife She Must Carry, Heigh-Ho!
823(6)
Myra Page (Dorothy Gary Markey)
829(9)
from Gathering Storm
Young Marge and Bob
830(8)
Erskine Caldwell
838(8)
from God's Little Acre
840(6)
Eudora Welty
846(23)
A Worn Path
847(6)
Petrified Man
853(8)
Why I Live at the P.O.
861(8)
Tennessee Williams
869(74)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
871(72)
Karl Shapiro
943(5)
University
944(1)
Conscription Camp
945(2)
The Southerner
947(1)
Margaret Danner
948(4)
The Convert
949(1)
This Is an African Worm
950(1)
The Painted Lady
951(1)
The Slave and the Iron Lace
951(1)
Walker Percy
952(8)
from The Moviegoer
953(7)
Carson McCullers
960(7)
Like That
961(6)
Peter Taylor
967(7)
First Heat
969(5)
Ellen Douglas
974(12)
I Just Love Carrie Lee
976(10)
James Dickey
986(6)
Cherrylog Road
987(3)
Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek
990(1)
Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony
991(1)
Vassar Miller
992(3)
On Approaching My Birthday
993(1)
Memento Mori
994(1)
Since No One Will Sing Me a Lullaby . . .
994(1)
Raison d'Etre
994(1)
Affinity
994(1)
Reassurance
995(1)
Donald Justice
995(4)
Anonymous Drawing
996(1)
My South
997(2)
Flannery O'Connor
999(31)
Everything That Rises Must Converge
1001(9)
Good Country People
1010(13)
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
1023(7)
Maya Angelou
1030(9)
from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Chapter 23: Graduation Day
1031(8)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1039(5)
I Have a Dream
1040(2)
Eulogy for Martyred Children
1042(2)
Etheridge Knight
1044(6)
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane
1045(1)
Haiku
1046(1)
For Freckle-Faced Gerald
1047(1)
He Sees Through Stone
1048(1)
The Idea of Ancestry
1048(1)
For Black Poets Who Think of Suicide
1049(1)
Sonia Sanchez
1050(4)
we a badddDDD people
1051(1)
right on: white america
1052(1)
poem
1053(1)
now poem. for us
1054(1)
Wendell Berry
1054(10)
The Work of Local Culture
1055(9)
Nikki Giovanni
1064(2)
Knoxville, Tennessee
1065(1)
For Saundra
1065(1)
Alice Walker
1066(5)
The Black Writer and the Southern Experience
1067(4)
Part VI Writers of the Contemporary South: The Third Generation, 1974--Present
1071(290)
Voices in Context: Death and Burial Traditions
1085(256)
Doris Betts
1086(3)
Three Ghosts
1087(2)
Harry Crews
1089(8)
Fathers, Sons, Blood
1091(6)
Clyde Edgerton
1097(4)
from The Floatplane Notebooks
Bliss
1098(3)
Michael Lee West
1101(5)
from Consuming Passions
Funeral Food
1102(4)
Randall Kenan
1106(11)
Clarence and the Dead
1107(10)
George Garrett
1117(4)
Feeling Good, Feeling Fine
1118(3)
Reynolds Price
1121(2)
Summer Games
1122(1)
William Styron
1123(18)
Shadrach
1125(16)
A. R. Ammons
1141(5)
Mule Song
1142(1)
Nelly Myers
1142(3)
The Foot-Washing
1145(1)
Hippie Hop
1146(1)
Ernest Gaines
1146(5)
from A Lesson Before Dying
1147(4)
Ellen Gilchrist
1151(8)
In the Land of Dreamy Dreams
1152(7)
James Lee Burke
1159(10)
Losses
1160(9)
Andre Dubus
1169(2)
At Night
1169(2)
Fred Chappell
1171(8)
from Wind Mountain
Second Wind
1172(2)
Here
1174(1)
from Earthsleep
My Mother's Hard Row to Hoe
1175(1)
Bee
1176(1)
The Encyclopedia Daniel
1176(3)
Lewis Nordan
1179(8)
The Sears and Roebuck Catalog Game
1180(7)
Bobbie Ann Mason
1187(10)
Drawing Names
1188(9)
Frederick Barthelme
1197(7)
Domestic
1198(6)
John Shelton Reed
1204(7)
New South or No South? Southern Culture in 2036
1205(6)
Dave Smith
1211(7)
Smithfield Ham
1212(1)
Wedding Song
1213(2)
Cumberland Station
1215(1)
In Memory of Hollis Summers
1216(1)
Canary Weather in Virginia
1217(1)
James Alan McPherson
1218(12)
I Am an American
1219(11)
Ellen Bryant Voigt
1230(3)
Lesson
1231(1)
``This is the double bed where she'd been born''
1231(1)
Short Story
1232(1)
Robert Morgan
1233(5)
Hayfield
1234(1)
Sunday Toilet
1234(1)
Firecrackers at Christmas
1235(1)
Overalls
1236(1)
Uranium
1236(1)
Bare Yard
1237(1)
Richard Ford
1238(6)
Going to the Dogs
1239(5)
Everette Maddox
1244(3)
Cleaning the Cruiser
1245(1)
New Orleans
1246(1)
Lee Smith
1247(10)
Me and My Baby View the Eclipse
1249(8)
Josephine Humphreys
1257(6)
from Rich in Love
1258(5)
Mary Hood
1263(12)
Inexorable Progress
1264(11)
Marilyn Nelson
1275(4)
Diverne's Waltz
1275(1)
Chopin
1276(1)
Alderman
1276(1)
Tuskegee Airfield
1277(2)
Martha McFerren
1279(5)
The Princess and the Goblins
1279(2)
The Famous Picnic of 1906
1281(1)
Seven Petticoats
1282(1)
The Bad Southern Cooking Poem
1283(1)
Yusef Komunyakaa
1284(6)
Untitled Blues
1286(1)
Boy Wearing a Dead Man's Clothes
1287(1)
Night Muse & Mortar Round
1288(1)
Tu Do Street
1288(1)
Facing It
1289(1)
Tim Gautreaux
1290(3)
Rodeo Parole
1291(2)
Dorothy Allison
1293(8)
The Meanest Woman Ever Left Tennessee
1294(7)
Rodney Jones
1301(5)
Mule
1301(2)
Alma
1303(1)
Simulated Woodgrain Vinyl
1304(2)
Larry Brown
1306(5)
The End of Romance
1307(4)
Jayne Anne Phillips
1311(10)
Home
1312(9)
Julie Kane
1321(4)
Reasons for Loving the Harmonica
1322(1)
Dead Armadillo Song
1322(1)
Kissing the Bartender
1323(1)
Ode to the Big Muddy
1323(2)
Jill McCorkle
1325(9)
Crash Diet
1326(8)
Kaye Gibbons
1334(7)
from Charms for the Easy Life
1335(6)
Voices in Context: Religion and the Southern Experience
1341(20)
Elizabeth Spencer
1343(4)
The Everlasting Light
1344(3)
Richard Bausch
1347(2)
1951
1348(1)
John Dufresne
1349(3)
The Freezer Jesus
1350(2)
Ron Rash
1352(9)
The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth
1353(8)
Bibliography 1361(33)
Credits 1394(6)
Index 1400

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