Born in the Delta: Reflections on the Making of a Southern White Sensibility
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (760 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1557286167 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 132 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. Comparable to Shirley Abbott's Womenfolks, Born in the Delta is a valuable resource for those interested in southern history and culture, as well as readers who just enjoy a good story, well-told.. A fascinating chapter on food in
Virginia Cazort said Rural Southern History in a Memoir. This is a fascinating book that everybody with a southern heritage would enjoy and that people without a southern heritage ought to read so they wouldn't be tempted to misconstrue certain patterns of life in the South.. John Bowen said Authentically Moving. As I child, I passed by the author's childhood home many times when visiting my friends the Rices in nearby Watson, Arkansas. There were always brief comments about the stately Southern home at the end of the long drive and the important, cultured family that had lived there for generations. So, when I first read BORN IN THE DELTA, immediatel. Southern Childhood Very much like my childhood, sans the farm. A wonderfully written memoir that would make an excellent gift to anyone who grew up in the South before integration. The phrase "common" was something I learned as a child - to be "common" was to bring shame or disgrace to one's self and family. "Don't do that, Rachel," my friend's mother said "it'
"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