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C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This updated third edition contains a chapter, "Look Away, Look Away," in which Woodward finds a plethora of additional ironies in the South's experience. It also includes previously uncollected appreciations of Robert Penn Warren, to whom the book was originally dedicated, and William Faulkner. This edition also features a new foreword by historian William E. Leuchtenburg in which he recounts the events that led up to Woodward's writing The Burden of Southern History, and reflects on the book's -- and Woodward's -- place in the study of southern history. The Burden of Southern History is quintessential Woodward -- wise, witty, ruminative, daring, and as alive in the twenty-first century as when it was written.… (más)
A collection of essays without cant, The Burden of Southern History begins and ends with a bang: in "The Search for Southern Identity" and "The Irony of Southern History," Woodward examines how Southerners--unlike Americans from other regions--have "experienced history" in their Civil War defeat and Reconstruction. Other essays treat the symbolic weight of John Brown, the difference between freed slaves' freedom and equality, and the use of Southern characters in the work of Meliville, Adams, and James. The middle sometimes wanes (as in the long treatment of Populism that assumes familiarity with a number of people and movements that have faded from view) but the style is solid and unmarred by the theory and hand-wringing that characterizes so much academic writing today. If you're pressed for time, read the opening and conclusing essays. ( )
3725. The Burden of Southern History, by C. Vann Woodward (read 4 Apr 2003) Woodward is a master of Southern history, and this is the 5th of his books I've read. It is a collection of eight essays and, like a book of short stories, some are of greater interest than others. Thus the book was not of the high interest and absorbing power of other work by Woodward, e.g., Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel (read 5 Mar 1995), a most illuminating account of a Southern demagogue, or Mary Chesnut's Civil War (read 17 July 2000), which he edited. Maybe the best essay in this book is "The Political Legacy of Reconstruction" written in 1957 and showing the moderation of Negroes when they had the vote after the Civil War--an essay which could not help but fuel the corrective history of Reconstruction which has illuminated that time for us and dispelled the fog of old movies like The Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind. ( )
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To Robert Penn Warren
In memoriam
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The time is coming, of indeed it has not already arrived, when the Southerner will begin to ask himself if there is really any longer very much point in calling himself a Southerner.
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The South has a tradition of attempting the impossible at great cost, proudly celebrating the failure, and gaining admiration for the performance. Black Southerners have made their own adaptation of the tradition in the civil rights movement.
After Faulkner, Wolfe, Warren and Welty no literate Southerner could remain unaware of his heritage or doubt its enduring value.
The South once thought of itself as a "peculiar people," set apart by its eccentricities, but in many ways modern America better deserves that description.
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It is our great fortune that we had among us for a time a poet who understood that -- and so much else about his role and his art.
C. Vann Woodward's The Burden of Southern History remains one of the essential history texts of our time. In it Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of southern identity, southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience. First published in 1960, the book quickly became a touchstone for generations of students. This updated third edition contains a chapter, "Look Away, Look Away," in which Woodward finds a plethora of additional ironies in the South's experience. It also includes previously uncollected appreciations of Robert Penn Warren, to whom the book was originally dedicated, and William Faulkner. This edition also features a new foreword by historian William E. Leuchtenburg in which he recounts the events that led up to Woodward's writing The Burden of Southern History, and reflects on the book's -- and Woodward's -- place in the study of southern history. The Burden of Southern History is quintessential Woodward -- wise, witty, ruminative, daring, and as alive in the twenty-first century as when it was written.
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