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Welcome to McAfee County, home to a large gathering of characters whose stories are as intertwined as kudzu. Moving in and out of each other's lives in profound, often shocking, ways, the men and women in these stories form a vibrant community.

Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African-American experience. In her novels and stories, she taps the richness of rural southern black culture and oral traditions to capture conflicting realities and reveal grace and courage.

Aims to show readers that any conclusions about former American president Jimmy Carter's leadership and its adequacy to his challenges as president cannot ignore the moral quandary that vexed the American nation not only under Carter but ever since.

This is Burns' story of his escape from a Georgia chain gang in 1921, after being sentenced to six to ten years' hard labour for robbery. He lived as a free man for seven years before being recaptured and returned to the chain gang. Escaping again, he was a fugitive when his story was published.

The memoir of the youth of Donald Windham in Depression-era Atlanta. The recollections describe the pleasant memories of his childhood as well as the less happy ones, and recount Windham's increasing desire for a world beyond Atlanta.

Looking closely at both the slaves' and masters' worlds in low, middle, and up-country South Carolina, this volume covers a wide range of economic and social topics related to the opportunities given to slaves to produce and trade their own food, once the master's assigned work was done.

Assessing the interplay between some of the East Hampton histories the author encountered, this work details the ""official"" stories of many generations, the myths and oral traditions, and the curious stories that Breen, as an outsider, discerned in the town's holdings of artifacts and documents.

More than 50 writers are profiled in this survey of the literature of the 1960s including Timothy Leary, Malcolm X, Helen Gurley Brown and Rachel Carson. The background of the youth movements are highlighted in the investigation in order to compare literacy in the USA in the 1990s.

These seven stories, set in the rural South and West, delve beneath the surface of ordinary lives, revealing their foibles and idiosyncracies. For example, an old deaf woman is kidnapped by a stranger whom she takes to the devil, and a money-grubbing man meets a woman no less hard than himself.

In this work, Hugh Kenner applies his attention to the alchemy of speech turning into language, language becoming art, and art finally settling down as culture. A variety of literary topics are addressed in 43 lively and often humorous essays, from St Augustine, through Tom Wolfe, to Nabokov.

A collection of ten essays which details the variety of ways that anthropological approaches and perspectives can be of practical worth in the resolution of conflicts.

This text offers a glimpse into the life and times of a 19th-century planter on one of Georgia's Sea Islands. Born poor, Robert Stafford became the leading planter on his native Cumberland Island and specialised in the highly valued long staple variety of cotton.

A history of Atlanta during and between the world wars. This volume draws on nearly 200 interviews with Atlanta residents who recall, in their own words, ""the way it was"" - from segregated streetcars to college fraternity parties, from moonshine peddling to visiting opera performances.

These essays explore the relationship between environmental ethics and policy, both in theory and practice. The work focuses on approaches to change in ethical theory, the need to expand awareness of the most pressing practical problems and the need for non-traditional solutions.

This volume is a collection of essays, letters, diary entries and speeches. Including selections by African Americans, women and native Americans, the anthology aims to reflect the diversity of voices and experiences throughout the history of the state.

This anthology offers pieces which embody the characteristically exaggerated and highly imaginative frontier humour of the old Southwest in the period 1835 to 1861. Among the authors represented are Philip B. January, Matthew C. Field, John Gorman, and George Washington Harris.

Spanning the period from the earliest European expeditions to the eve of the Civil War, this book assembles a collection of first hand perspectives on the forces and experiences that defined the American south. Subjects include slavery, hospitality, religion and culture.

Drawing upon letters, autobiographies and novels, this book examines the strategies that various southern women writers in the USA have used to create their own ""voice"", their own unique expression of mind and selfhood. This book is written within a chronological framework.

An account of the people and forces that shaped the development of Georgia and other regions of the South. Enlarged and updated, this edition places greater emphasis on how urbanization and industrialization contributed to the development of a more cosmopolitan political culture.

This is a poetry of excursions: into maps of lost territories, into the thoughts of a man with no legs, into the life of a town marked by disasters. Lawler moves into the slender lines of shattered glass, the spaces between lyric and narrative, between metamorphosis and mutation.

In this pathbreaking anthology, Marie Harris and Kathleen Aguero have brought together poems representing a diversity of American voices and identities--among them Native, Asian, and black Americans; Chicano and Puerto Rican writers; gay and lesbian poets; writers of working-class background; and poets writing from American prisons.

The Stegemans follow the life of a woman whose spirit and determination led her far beyond the domestic concerns of most women of her day. The wife of Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene, Caty was a close friend of George and Martha Washington, a business partner of Eli Whitney, and mistress of two Georgia plantations.

Presents the social and cultural history of the New South's ""Gate City"", which looks at the variety of public amusements available to Atlantans from the end of Reconstruction to the eve of the Great Depression, including theater, vaudeville, dime museums, movies, radio, and classical, blues, and country music.

Southern Prohibition examines political culture and reform through the evolving temperance and prohibition movements in Middle Florida. Scholars have long held that liquor reform was largely a northern and mid-Atlantic phenomenon before the Civil War. Lee L. Willis takes a close look at the Florida plantation belt to reveal that the campaign against alcohol had a dramatic impact on public life in this portion of the South as early as the 1840s.Race, class, and gender mores shaped and were shaped by the temperance movement. White racial fears inspired prohibition for slaves and free blacks. Stringent licensing shut down grog shops that were the haunts of common and poor whites, which accelerated gentrification and stratified public drinking along class lines. Restricting blacks access to alcohol was a theme that ran through temperance and prohibition campaigns in Florida, but more affluent African Americans also supported prohibition, indicating that the issue was not driven solely by white desires for social control. Women in the plantation belt played a marginal role in comparison to other locales and were denied greater political influence as a result.Beyond alcohol, Willis also takes a broader look at psychoactive substances to show the veritable pharmacopeia available to Floridians in the nineteenth century. Unlike the campaign against alcohol, however, the tightening regulations on narcotics and cocaine in the early twentieth century elicited little public discussion or concerna quiet beginning to the states war on drugs.

A collection of essays interwoven with poems and folklore. Judith Ortiz Cofer tells the story of how she became a poet and writer and explores her love of words, her discovery of the magic of language, and her struggle to carve out time to practise her art.

Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarisation and modernisation of the Cold War-era American South.