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First Time in Paperback. A black football player tells what it means to escape from Mississippi to a Northern campus....A Southern shoe salesman declares he never will bend down to put shoes on "Nigra" feet......An elderly Negro woman talks about her religion....An up-and-coming stockbroker explains how to make sales by attending church....A young black bitterly denounces the prejudice of his lighter skinned brothers....A barber describes a Klan meeting as though it were a family outing....These are but a few of the voices memorably recorded by Erskine Caldwell as he traveled, looked, asked questions and, abouve all, listened in every corner of the Southland that has long been his special province. The result is one of the most truth-telling portrayals ever of the tambourine-shaking, electric-guitar land of the Bible Belt and the Black Revolution.
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Portraying a region steeped in religious piety and ritual, excess and prejudice, Deep South is a product both of Erskine Caldwell the storyteller and Erskine Caldwell the minister's son. Rev. Ira Sylvester Caldwell's missionary work took him and his family deep into the Bible Belt. By the time Erskine Caldwell left home at seventeen, he had witnessed such varieties of religious experience as all-night camp meetings, baptismal immersions in muddy creeks, snakehandlings, street-corner rallies, and midnight mass. Decades later, Caldwell drew on this fertile background when he toured the region in order to hear firsthand from ministers and churchgoers about how southern protestantism was faring amid the social upheaval of the mid-1960s. Deep South offers a rich mix of anecdotes, memories, interviews, and observations that points to what may he the true essence of southern spirituality.
About the Author:
Erskine Caldwell (1903-1987) was born in Newnan, Georgia. He became one of America's most widely read, prolific, and critically debated writers, with a literary output of more than sixty titles. At the time of his death, Caldwell's books had sold eighty million copies worldwide in more than forty languages. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1984.
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- PublisherSignet
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 0451038711
- ISBN 13 9780451038715
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages192
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