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§ ita § - Mar 07, 2009 2:07:41 pm PST #8554 of 28431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My mother used to want me to stop reading SF&F, and tossed Kindred to me in that cause. She should have checked the rest of Butler's oeuvre beforehand...

My sister who only consumes SF&F because of me liked Kindred on its own terms. I thought it was a wonderful book. Thought-provoking and powerful.

Pix - Mar 07, 2009 3:28:52 pm PST #8555 of 28431
The status is NOT quo.

Oh yes, I adore Kindred. One of my favorite books, actually, and I agree much better than Fledgling.

flea - Mar 10, 2009 8:54:30 am PDT #8556 of 28431
information libertarian

I am doing a project called Understanding The American South. Recommend books to me that speak to this topic - history, culture, cooking, whatever. (Nonfiction preferred, though - I am not much of a fiction reader).

Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 8:59:31 am PDT #8557 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

WJ Cash - The Mind of the South

VO Key - Southern Politics in State and Nation

C Vann Woodward - The Origins of the New South

C Vann Woodward - The Strange Career of Jim Crow

Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:02:01 am PDT #8558 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Lawrence Goodwyn - The Populist Moment

C Vann Woodward - Tom Watson, Agrarian Rebel

Robert Wiebe - The Search for Order 1877 - 1920

Gavin Wright - Old South, New South

Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:04:16 am PDT #8559 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Carter Woodson - The Mis-Education of the Negro

Frederick Douglass - My Bondage and My Freedom

Stanley Elkins - Slavery

Rick Perlstein - Nixonland (esp for the sections about George Wallace)

Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:06:38 am PDT #8560 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Fiction:

Faulkner - Absolam! Absolam! and As I Lay Dying

Flannery O'Connor - Wise Blood

Larry Brown - Big Bad Love

Barry Hannah - Airships

Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:07:23 am PDT #8561 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

It's like I've been waiting for years for someone to ask about this!

lisah - Mar 10, 2009 9:14:20 am PDT #8562 of 28431
Punishingly Intricate

It's like I've been waiting for years for someone to ask about this!

hah! You are on it! All I could think of were these collections of stories we read for my southern lit class in grad school: Stories of the Old South and Stories of the New South. There was great stuff in both of them.

Hayden - Mar 10, 2009 9:16:50 am PDT #8563 of 28431
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

Fogel & Engermann's Time On The Cross is a hideous book that someone might recommend to you. I think you should read it, knowing that it's an abomination of history.

Thomas Dixon's The Clansman is the work of fiction that Birth of a Nation was based on.

Zora Neal Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is another work of fiction, but the details are rather eye-opening.

Cormac McCarthy's early work Child of God is a great slice of Southern Gothic.

Sorry, more nonfiction:

Eric Foner's Reconstruction

David Halberstam's The Children (which is the finest book he ever wrote)

Sara Evans - Personal Politics, which is about the way that feminism was changed by the civil rights movement

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