The Oxford Book of the American South : Testimony, Memory, and Fiction.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The Old South -- Introductory Essay -- from Travels -- from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African -- from Notes on the State of Virginia -- from the Reverend Francis Asbury's Journal -- from The Confessions of Nat Turner -- from Georgia Scenes -- from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass -- from Social Relations in Our Southern States -- from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl -- from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- from The Mind of the South -- from The Making of a Southerner -- from The Confessions of Nat Turner -- from Dessa Rose -- The Civil War and Its Consequences -- Introductory Essay -- War -- from The Civil War Diary of Sarah Morgan -- from "Co. Aytch -- from Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory -- from Know Nothing -- from The Legacy of the Civil War -- from Jubilee -- Dragged Fighting from His Tomb -- Shiloh -- Consequences -- Letter to the Union Convention, 1865 -- Dave's Neckliss -- The Little Convent Girl -- Désirée's Baby -- from Up from Slavery -- from The Souls of Black Folk -- from The Deliverance -- Wash -- from Gone with the Wind -- Hard Times -- Introductory Essay -- from I'll Take My Stand -- from "Boom Town -- Kneel to the Rising Sun -- from Their Eyes Were Watching God -- Death of a Traveling Salesman -- from Lanterns on the Levee -- from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men -- from Black Boy -- from Invisible Man -- from I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- from Train Whistle Guitar -- from A Childhood, the Biography of a Place -- from Oral History -- from I Am One of You Forever -- The Turning -- Introductory Essay -- from Killers of the Dream -- Letter from Birmingham Jail -- Everything that Rises Must Converge -- from The Lost Gentleman -- from North Toward Home -- The Sky Is Gray -- from Meridian -- Why I Like Country Music.

Good-bye, Good-bye, Be Always Kind and True -- from Keeper of the Moon: A Southern Boyhood -- The Decline and Fall of the Episcopal Church (in the Year of Our Lord 1952) -- from Salvation on Sand Mountain -- from Mississippi: An American Journey -- Acknowledgments -- Author Index.

Resonating with the testimony of slaves and slaveholders, the powerful and the powerless, women and men, black people and white, The Oxford Book of the American South combines the most telling fiction and nonfiction produced in the South from the late eighteenth century to the present. The first anthology to put short stories, novels, autobiographies, diaries, memoirs, and journalism together, this collection is a rich and varied record of life below the Mason Dixon line.We see the antebellum period both from the perspective of those who experienced it first-hand, such as Thomas Jefferson and Harriet Jacobs, as well as from authors who imagined the era later, including William Styron and Sherley Anne Williams. Likewise, we see the Civil War through eyewitness accounts such as Sarah Morgan's, later writers' analyses such as W.E.B Du Bois's, and war-inspired fiction such as Margaret Mitchell's. Classic authors of the 1920s and 30s Southern Renaissance are followed by figures including Martin Luther King, Jr., George Garrett, and Peter Taylor, whose works capture the dramatic years of the Civil Rights movement. The struggles, defeats, and triumphs chronicled in The Oxford Book of the American South speak not just to the South, but to all of the American experience.

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