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Article: The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory. By W. Fitzhugh Brundage. (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 418. $27.95, ISBN 0-674-01876-1.)
Somehow W. Fitzhugh Brundage has managed to write a fine and important book on the power of historical memory in the South since the Civil War without once quoting William Faulkner. Still, Faulkner's sense that the southern past, present, and future were inescapably intertwined, an idea that refuted the Lost Cause version of regional history that reigned when Faulkner wrote his best books, haunts Brundage's text like slaveholding ancestors trouble Faulkner's more ...