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I. Identifying Southern places and voices: Harry Crews, from A childhood: the biography of a place ; Elizabeth Spencer, A Southern landscape ; Bobbie Ann Mason, State Champions ; Alice Walker, A sudden trip home in the spring ; Fred Chappell, Children of strikers ; Eudora Welty, from One writer's beginnings ; Michael Malone, Fast love -- II. Remembering Southern families: Lee Smith, Artists ; Shirley Ann Grau, Homecoming ; Ellen Gilchrist, The President of the Louisiana Live Oak Society ; Mary Hood, How far she went ; Carson McCullers, Sucker ; Alice Walker, Everyday use ; William Hoffman, Amazing grace -- III. Experiencing Southern communities: Maya Angelou, from I know why the caged bird sings ; Flannery O'Connor, Everything that rises must converge ; Gail Godwin, The angry year ; Peter Taylor, The old forest -- IV. Breaking Southern stereotypes: Anne Moody, from Coming of age in Mississippi ; Joan Williams, Spring is now ; William Faulkner, An odor of verbena ; Ernest Gaines, Thomas Vincent Sullivan from A gathering of old men ; Richard Wright, The man who was almost a man ; Mary Mebane, from Mary ; Katherine Anne Porter, Old morality. |
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