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Buck-Horned Snakes And Possum Women: Non-White Folkore, Antebellum *Southern Literature, And Interracial Cultural Exchange, John Douglas Miller
Buck-Horned Snakes And Possum Women: Non-White Folkore, Antebellum *Southern Literature, And Interracial Cultural Exchange, John Douglas Miller
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The antebellum American South was a site of continual human mobility and social fluidity. This cultivated a pattern of cultural exchange between black, indigenous, and white Southerners, especially in the Old Southwest, making the region a cultural borderland as well as a geographical one. This environment resulted in the creolization of many aspects of life in the region. to date, the literature of the Old South has yet to be studied in this context. This project traces the diffusion of African-American and Native American culture in white-authored Southern texts.;For instance, textual evidence in Old Southwestern Humor reveals a pattern of …
Folk Conceptions Of Mental Disorders, Mimi Margaret Poe
Folk Conceptions Of Mental Disorders, Mimi Margaret Poe
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John A Lomax: Documenting The Myth Of The American West, Katherine Hinchliffe Gschwend
John A Lomax: Documenting The Myth Of The American West, Katherine Hinchliffe Gschwend
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