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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 as well as the black expressive "experimentalists" Percival Everett and Ralph Ellison. I Don't Hate The South's central claim is that the South is a laboratory, metaphor, and proving ground for American polity as a whole. W. E. B. Du Bois noted: "As the South goes, so goes the nation!" Houston Baker sets out to show the present-day wisdom of Du Bois's observation in a post-Hurricane Katrina moment of national family crisis. With incisive wit, scrupulous literary and cultural analysis, and vivid portraits of members of his own family, the author provides captivating reading and an object lesson on the United States' regional and national interdependence.
Contents
Introduction
On the Distinction of Jr.: Geographies of My Father Name
Libraries of Consciousness: Public Reading and American Identity
A Book of Southern Distinction: The Souls of Black Folk at 100
Still Crazy After All These Years: A Yale Black Studies Story
The Poetry of Impulse: Black Words on Southern Green
Modernity and the Transatlantic Rupture: A Meditation on the Slave Trade
Traveling With Faulkner: A Tale of Myth, Contemporaneity, and Southern Letters
"If you see Robert Penn Warren, ask him: Who does speak for the Negro?" Reflections on Monk, Black Writing, and Percival Everett's Erasure
Failed Prophet and Falling Stock: Why Ralph Ellison was Never Avant-Garde
The Catch: A Meditation on Family, Mental Illness, and My Father
Conclusion: Even God Believes in "No Guarantees"
