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Born in the Delta: Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility
Margaret Bolsterli
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Description for Born in the Delta: Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility
Paperback. Num Pages: 132 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 231.
In this gracefully written memoir, Margaret Jones Bolsterli recounts her experiences as a lively, observant girl coming of age on an Arkansas cotton farm during the 1930s and 1940s. The Mississippi River's broad, flat floodplain provides the setting for her vivid strokes of memory and history each portraying key elements of the "southern sensibility." Bolsterli's themes include the southerner's strong sense of place, the penchant for stories rather than true dialog, a caste system based on formality and race, the underlying current of violence, and the repressive function of evangelical religion. She also examines manners, the patriarchal family structure, the ... Read more
In this gracefully written memoir, Margaret Jones Bolsterli recounts her experiences as a lively, observant girl coming of age on an Arkansas cotton farm during the 1930s and 1940s. The Mississippi River's broad, flat floodplain provides the setting for her vivid strokes of memory and history each portraying key elements of the "southern sensibility." Bolsterli's themes include the southerner's strong sense of place, the penchant for stories rather than true dialog, a caste system based on formality and race, the underlying current of violence, and the repressive function of evangelical religion. She also examines manners, the patriarchal family structure, the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557286161
SKU
V9781557286161
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Ref
99-15
About Margaret Bolsterli
Margaret Jones Bolsterli has also authored The Early Community at Bedford Park and edited Vinegar Pie and Chicken Bread and A Remembrance of Eden. She is professor emerita of English at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and owns a cattle farm in Wesley, Arkansas.
Reviews for Born in the Delta: Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility
"Bolsterli's work is both that of the Southerner native-born and of the cosmopolitan richly experienced with contrasting ways of knowing." —Gayle Graham Yates, University of Minnesota