A Literate South: Reading before Emancipation - Hardcover

Schweiger, Beth Barton

 
9780300112535: A Literate South: Reading before Emancipation
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 030011253X ISBN 13: 9780300112535
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

A provocative examination of literacy in the American South before emancipation, countering the long-standing stereotype of the South’s oral tradition

Schweiger complicates our understanding of literacy in the American South in the decades just prior to the Civil War by showing that rural people had access to a remarkable variety of things to read. Drawing on the writings of four young women who lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Schweiger shows how free and enslaved people learned to read, and that they wrote and spoke poems, songs, stories, and religious doctrines that were circulated by speech and in print. The assumption that slavery and reading are incompatible―which has its origins in the eighteenth century―has obscured the rich literate tradition at the heart of Southern and American culture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Beth Barton Schweiger taught for fifteen years at the University of Arkansas. She is the author of The Gospel Working Up and editor of Religion in the American South.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030011253X
ISBN 13 
9780300112535
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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