Ebook: Dreamworlds of Alabama
Author: Allen Shelton
- Tags: Shelton Allen -- (Allen C.) -- Childhood and youth., Shelton Allen -- (Allen C.) -- Family., Pelham John -- 1838-1863 -- Influence., Benjamin Walter -- 1892-1940 -- Influence., Hubbard Elizabeth -- d. 1938 -- Influence., Farm life -- Alabama -- Jacksonville., Teachers -- New York (State) -- Buffalo -- Biography.
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- City: Minneapolis, United States
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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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