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Dreamworlds of Alabama

By Allen Shelton

Book information

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780816653881, 9780816650347
LCC
F334.J33 -- S54 2007eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1170913 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
225\225
Time added
2023-08-13 11:03:20
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Description

Wisteria draped on a soldierÕs coffin, sent home to Alabama from a Virginia battlefield. The oldest standing house in the county, painted gray and flanked by a pecan orchard. A black steel fence tool, now perched atop a pile of books like a prehistoric bird of prey. In Dreamworlds of Alabama, Allen Shelton explores physical, historical, and social landscapes of northeastern Alabama. His homeplace near the Appalachian foothills provides the setting for a rich examination of cultural practices, a place where the language of place and things resonates with as much vitality and emotional urgency as the language of humans. Throughout the book, Shelton demonstrates how deeply culture is inscribed in the land and in the most intimate spaces of the personÑplaces of belonging and loss, insight and memory.

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