The Confession of Dorothy Danner: Telling a Life Story

by Richard A. Pride

Book Overview

An intriguing blend of biography, oral history, sociology, and politics that stretches the boundaries of each category to examine one particular story of the South during the Civil Rights era.

What does it mean to tell a life story? Can it truly be done? Is there a single version of "truth" to be told about a person's life?

In this complex and fascinating book, Dorothy Danner of Mobile, Alabama, emerges as an intriguing example of Sartre's "universal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826512704
• ISBN13: 9780826512703
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.3"