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- From: rizwana banu <riz_banu AT hotmail.com>
- To: <percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:11:01 +0530
That is beautiful. The spirit of southern writing springs not from being similar but being diverse and celebrating all that pertains to the south, be it the history( it is one history for the white man and another for the black and sometimes a shared history), religion, or gender. However, critics want to exaggerate the differences to the extent of convoluting the very joy and essence of being southern. This makes it hard to substantiate one's southernness with a necessity to take a stand on either this or that side. From: nikkibar AT aol.com To: percy-l AT lists.ibiblio.org Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:03:18 -0500 Subject: Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness The characteristics of being a Southern writer are 1. You should be from the Southern United States and 2 You should write. Walker hated being referred to that way and always would rather be read as simply a writer. That he was Southern was for him incidental and not of great importance. Nor is his Catholicism of any characteristic importance. Eudora Welty wasn't, nor was Faulkner. Nor am I, although nobody much reads my work the way they do with Percy, Welty, or Faulkner. And yet by all right I am a Southern writer and I'll fight the man what says it isn't so. Or at least smile in sardonic amusement. Nikki Barranger = On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:40 AM, rizwana banu wrote: From the events that change the world, to the ones that just shouldn’t be missed. Catch it all on MSN India. Drag n’ drop |
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[percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
rizwana banu, 10/20/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
Garic Barranger, 10/20/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
rizwana banu, 10/21/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
Garic Barranger, 10/21/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
rizwana banu, 10/21/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
Karey Perkins, 10/21/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
RHONDA MCDONNELL, 10/22/2009
- Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness, rizwana banu, 10/23/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
RHONDA MCDONNELL, 10/22/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
Karey Perkins, 10/21/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
rizwana banu, 10/21/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
Garic Barranger, 10/21/2009
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Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness,
rizwana banu, 10/21/2009
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- Re: [percy-l] FW: percy's southernness, RHONDA MCDONNELL, 10/22/2009
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Garic Barranger, 10/20/2009
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