{"product_id":"i-dont-hate-the-south-reflections-on-faulkner-family-and-the-south-9780195084290","title":"I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South","description":"\u003cem\u003eI Don't Hate The South\u003c\/em\u003e takes its title from the famous declaration by Faulkner's character Quentin Compson in the novel \u003cem\u003eAbsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/em\u003e. The book traces Baker's own ambivalent relationship to the South and its various protocols of family and black expressive cultural independence through a\u003cbr\u003ememoiristic recounting of the author's various academic posts, family dramas, travels, and engagements with that most famous of southern authors, William Faulkner as well as the black expressive experimentalists Percival Everett and Ralph Ellison. \u003cem\u003eI Don't Hate The South\u003c\/em\u003e's central claim is that\u003cbr\u003ethe South is a laboratory, metaphor, and proving ground for American polity as a whole. W. E. B. Du Bois noted: As the South goes, so goes the nation! Houston Baker sets out to show the present-day wisdom of Du Bois's observation in a post-Hurricane Katrina moment of national family crisis. With\u003cbr\u003eincisive wit, scrupulous literary and cultural analysis, and vivid portraits of members of his own family, the author provides captivating reading and an object lesson on the United States' regional and national interdependence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Houston A. Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195084290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHouston A. Baker, Jr.\u003c\/strong\u003e is a native of Louisville, Kentucky. Currently Distinguished University Professor of English as Vanderbilt University, he has taught at Yale, the Universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania, and Duke. His books include \u003cem\u003eTurning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism, Re-Reading Booker\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eT.\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCritical Memory: Public Spheres, African American Writing and Black Fathers and Sons in America\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBlues, Ideology, and Afro-American Literature\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929239142515,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_b5b842b2-af21-4a97-a5d6-ac3cdfa5c424.jpg?v=1647612479","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/i-dont-hate-the-south-reflections-on-faulkner-family-and-the-south-9780195084290","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}