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I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South
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I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South Hardcover - 2007 - 1st Edition

by Houston A. Baker


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I Don't Hate The South takes its title from the famous declaration by Faulkner's character Quentin Compson in the novel Absalom, Absalom!. The book traces Baker's own ambivalent relationship to the South and its various protocols of family and black expressive cultural independence through a memoiristic recounting of the author's various academic posts, family dramas, travels, and engagements with that most famous of southern authors, William Faulkner as well as the black expressive "experimentalists" Percival Everett and Ralph Ellison. I Don't Hate The South's central claim is that the South is a laboratory, metaphor, and proving ground for American polity as a whole. W. E. B. Du Bois noted: "As the South goes, so goes the nation!" Houston Baker sets out to show the present-day wisdom of Du Bois's observation in a post-Hurricane Katrina moment of national family crisis. With incisive wit, scrupulous literary and cultural analysis, and vivid portraits of members of his own
family, the author provides captivating reading and an object lesson on the United States' regional and national interdependence.

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  • Title I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South
  • Author Houston A. Baker
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 216
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, NY
  • Date 2007-08-06
  • ISBN 9780195084290 / 0195084292
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 14.22 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects American literature - African American, American literature - Southern States -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006032637
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.997

About the author


Houston A. Baker, Jr. is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. Currently Distinguished University Professor of English as Vanderbilt University, he has taught at Yale, the Universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania, and Duke. His books include Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism, Re-Reading Booker T., Critical Memory: Public Spheres, African American Writing and Black Fathers and Sons in America, and Blues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature.
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