{"product_id":"i-dont-hate-the-south-reflections-on-faulkner-family-and-the-south-hardcover","title":"I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHouston A. Baker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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 memoiristic 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 the 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 incisive 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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 T.\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.3 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 06, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52637672800563,"sku":"9780195084290","price":148.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/1P3zxb3eHL9780195084290.webp?v=1762296854","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/i-dont-hate-the-south-reflections-on-faulkner-family-and-the-south-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}