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The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L.
Spivak's shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having "the weight
and authority of a sociological investigation." This Southern
Classics edition makes Spivak's narrative available to modern
readers, augmented with a new introduction by David A. Davis as
well as additional documents Spivak gathered during his
investigation into the abuses of the Depression-era Southern prison
system.
Georgia Nigger exposes the institutionalized system of
sharecropping, debt peonage, and exorbitant chain gang sentences
that trapped many southern black men in a cycle of labor
exploitation. Spivak (1897-1981) gained unlikely access to chain
gangs through the Georgia Prison Commission, and his book combines
elements of muckraking reportage and proletarian fiction to offer a
sensational and damning case for prison reform.
The plot follows David Jackson, the son of black sharecroppers, who
is released from a chain gang then almost immediately re-arrested
and bound over to a white planter as a peon. Jackson escapes
peonage only to be arrested again as a vagrant and sentenced to
another chain gang. He tries to escape again with the help of an
older inmate, but they are both captured and suffer torturous
punishments. Spivak's novel has merit both as revealing historical
account of sharecropping and chain gangs and as a compelling
literary allegory of an individual confronted by sweeping social
forces.
For Depression-era readers, Georgia Nigger provided outrage beyond
its obvious depictions of inhumanity and torture. The book hinges
on the crime of vagrancy, a charge often used to force into labor
persons without obvious means of income. In this particular
arrangement, being unemployed was a crime in itself, which allowed
for the exploitation of the economically vulnerable. Like many
writers and intellectuals of his era, Spivak sought to expose the
abuses committed against the nation's most impoverished. His book
combines elements of labor rabble-rousing, radical fiction, and
documentary photography to depict the lives of black Southerners
and to indict a flawed system of labor and justice.
When the United States entered World War I, parts of the country
had developed industries, urban cultures, and democratic political
systems, but the South lagged behind, remaining an impoverished,
agriculture region. Despite New South boosterism, the culture of
the early twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically
arid. Yet, southern writers dominated the literary marketplace by
the 1920s and 1930s. World War I brought southerners into contact
with modernity before the South fully modernized. This shortfall
created an inherent tension between the region's existing
agricultural social structure and the processes of modernization,
leading to distal modernism, a form of writing that combines
elements of modernism to depict non-modern social structures.
Critics have struggled to formulate explanations for the eruption
of modern southern literature, sometimes called the Southern
Renaissance. ,br> Pinpointing World War I as the catalyst, David
A. Davis argues southern modernism was not a self-generating
outburst of writing, but a response to the disruptions modernity
generated in the region. In World War I and Southern Modernism,
Davis examines dozens of works of literature by writers, including
William Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, and Claude McKay, that depict the
South during the war. Topics explored in the book include contact
between the North and the South, southerners who served in combat,
and the developing southern economy. Davis also provides a new lens
for this argument, taking a closer look at African Americans in the
military and changing gender roles.
Improve clinical competence and performance, deliver better health
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Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping-crucial to
understanding life in the southern United States-from Emancipation
to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of
literature in their historical context, David A. Davis demonstrates
how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to
resonate in American culture. Following the end of slavery,
sharecropping initially served as an expedient solution to a
practical problem, but it quickly developed into an entrenched
power structure situated between slavery and freedom that exploited
the labor of Blacks and poor whites to produce agricultural
commodities. Sharecropping was the economic linchpin in the South's
social structure, and the region's political system, race
relations, and cultural practices were inextricably linked with
this peculiar form of tenant farming from the end of the Civil War
through the civil rights movement. Driven to the Field analyzes
literary portrayals of this system to explain how it defined the
culture of the South, revealing multiple genres of literature that
depicted sharecropping, such as cotton romances, agricultural
uplift novels, proletarian sharecropper fiction, and sharecropper
autobiographies-important works of American literature that have
never before been evaluated and discussed in their proper context.
Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry
again. Vardaman Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner's Jefferson, and
the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food
and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products
associated with the South, the connections between them have not
been thoroughly explored until now. Southern food has become the
subject of increasingly self-conscious intellectual consideration.
The Southern Foodways Alliance, the Southern Food and Beverage
Museum, food-themed issues of Oxford American and Southern
Cultures, and a spate of new scholarly and popular books
demonstrate this interest. Writing in the Kitchen explores the
relationship between food and literature and makes a major
contribution to the study of both southern literature and of
southern foodways and culture more widely. This collection examines
food writing in a range of literary expressions, including
cookbooks, agricultural journals, novels, stories, and poems.
Contributors interpret how authors use food to explore the changing
South, considering the ways race, ethnicity, class, gender, and
region affect how and what people eat. They describe foods from
specific southern places such as New Orleans and Appalachia, engage
both the historical and contemporary South, and study the food
traditions of ethnicities as they manifest through the written
word.
Scarlett O'Hara munched on a radish and vowed never to go hungry
again. Vardaman Bundren ate bananas in Faulkner's Jefferson, and
the Invisible Man dined on a sweet potato in Harlem. Although food
and stories may be two of the most prominent cultural products
associated with the South, the connections between them have not
been thoroughly explored until now.
Southern food has become the subject of increasingly
self-conscious intellectual consideration. The Southern Foodways
Alliance, the Southern Food and Beverage Museum, food-themed issues
of "Oxford American" and "Southern Cultures," and a spate of new
scholarly and popular books demonstrate this interest. "Writing in
the Kitchen" explores the relationship between food and literature
and makes a major contribution to the study of both southern
literature and of southern foodways and culture more widely.
This collection examines food writing in a range of literary
expressions, including cookbooks, agricultural journals, novels,
stories, and poems. Contributors interpret how authors use food to
explore the changing South, considering the ways race, ethnicity,
class, gender, and region affect how and what people eat. They
describe foods from specific southern places such as New Orleans
and Appalachia, engage both the historical and contemporary South,
and study the food traditions of ethnicities as they manifest
through the written word.
Raised on a colonial New Hampshire farm by their secretive father,
teen-age twins John and Sarah, especially Sarah, wonder about what
their mother was like. A botched kidnapping and a desperate
maritime chase down the Atlantic seaboard brutally brings that
wonder to reality. It also results in the twins learning about and
having to deal with their parents' sordid past and involvement with
piracy and the colonial system that encourages it. Can they and
their parents survive the ordeal?
These rich sermons are rooted in congregational life and steeped in
Christian doctrine and the celebrations of the church year.
A??Kingdom We Can Taste reflects one preacher's effort at leading a
congregation through the seasons of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany,
Lent, and Easter. David Davis uses a unique combination of
resources ? select Old Testament texts, the Apostles' Creed,
lectionary assignments, and more ? in his progression of sermons.
Readers who "listen" to these thirteen messages, or preaching
conversations, will experience the gospel proclaimed and feel a
comforting sense of belonging to the community of faith. This
inspiring little volume is perfect for pastors preparing sermons of
their own, seminary students looking for a model of good preaching,
or laypeople wanting quality meditations to chew on.
Driven to the Field traces the culture of sharecropping-crucial to
understanding life in the southern United States-from Emancipation
to the twenty-first century. By reading dozens of works of
literature in their historical context, David A. Davis demonstrates
how sharecropping emerged, endured for a century, and continues to
resonate in American culture. Following the end of slavery,
sharecropping initially served as an expedient solution to a
practical problem, but it quickly developed into an entrenched
power structure situated between slavery and freedom that exploited
the labor of Blacks and poor whites to produce agricultural
commodities. Sharecropping was the economic linchpin in the South's
social structure, and the region's political system, race
relations, and cultural practices were inextricably linked with
this peculiar form of tenant farming from the end of the Civil War
through the civil rights movement. Driven to the Field analyzes
literary portrayals of this system to explain how it defined the
culture of the South, revealing multiple genres of literature that
depicted sharecropping, such as cotton romances, agricultural
uplift novels, proletarian sharecropper fiction, and sharecropper
autobiographies-important works of American literature that have
never before been evaluated and discussed in their proper context.
America is in a moment of crisis. Facing the overlapping traumas of
the COVID-19 pandemic, the student debt crisis, the murder of
George Floyd, and the insurrection of January 6, we as Americans
have been forced to ask ourselves what we owe each other as human
beings, a task made only more difficult by entrenched political
polarization. In this environment, critical thinking skills are
more important than ever to find meaning, make decisions, and
rebuild civil discourse. In What We Value, acclaimed bioethicist
Lynn Pasquerella examines urgent issues-moral distress, access to
resources, and the conflict over whose voices and lives are
privileged-issues with which Americans wrestle daily, arguing that
liberal education is the best preparation for work, citizenship,
and life in a future none of us can predict. Drawing on examples
from medical schools and university hospitals across the country,
Pasquerella addresses medical ethics and public health in the wake
of the pandemic. She then unpacks the current challenges
surrounding free speech, equity, and inclusion on American
campuses. Finally, she examines the growing racial and economic
segregation in higher education, making a forceful case for the
value of a liberal education in providing the skills and
competencies, alongside the habits of heart and mind, required to
address vexing questions about the nature of individual rights
versus collective responsibility. This vital book demonstrates how
tumultuous current events reveal what we value and the ways in
which a liberal education can help us to learn from one another
while cultivating the personal and social responsibility necessary
for furthering the common good.
Winner of the 2018 Eudora Welty Prize. When the United States
entered World War I, parts of the country had developed industries,
urban cultures, and democratic political systems, but the South
lagged behind, remaining an impoverished, agriculture region.
Despite New South boosterism, the culture of the early
twentieth-century South was comparatively artistically arid. Yet,
southern writers dominated the literary marketplace by the 1920s
and 1930s. World War I brought southerners into contact with
modernity before the South fully modernized. This shortfall created
an inherent tension between the region's existing agricultural
social structure and the processes of modernization, leading to
distal modernism, a form of writing that combines elements of
modernism to depict non-modern social structures. Critics have
struggled to formulate explanations for the eruption of modern
southern literature, sometimes called the Southern Renaissance.
Pinpointing World War I as the catalyst, David A. Davis argues
southern modernism was not a self-generating outburst of writing,
but a response to the disruptions modernity generated in the
region. In World War I and Southern Modernism, Davis examines
dozens of works of literature by writers, including William
Faulkner, Ellen Glasgow, and Claude McKay, that depict the South
during the war. Topics explored in the book include contact between
the North and the South, southerners who served in combat, and the
developing southern economy. Davis also provides a new lens for
this argument, taking a closer look at African Americans in the
military and changing gender roles.
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