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The Roots of Southern Writing: Essays on the Literature of The American South
The Roots of Southern Writing Essays on the Literature of The American South
Author: C. Hugh Holman
At the heart of the southern riddle you will find a union of opposites, a condition of instability, a paradox. Calm grace and raw hatred. Polished manners and violence. An intense individualism and intense group pressures toward conformity. A reverence to the point of idolatry of self-determining action and a caste and class structure presupposi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780820333595
ISBN-10: 082033359X
Publication Date: 11/1/2008
Pages: 252
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Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Book Type: Paperback
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