I Don't Hate the South: Reflections on Faulkner, Family, and the South

by Houston A. Baker Jr.

Book Overview

I Don't Hate The South takes its title from the famous declaration by Faulkner's character Quentin Compson in the novel Absalom, Absalom . 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195326555
• ISBN13: 9780195326550
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.4"