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Afterwords; Or, Whistling "Dixie" on the Front Porch of My Southern Home
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Southern Quarterly
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April 1, 2008
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This issue of The Southern Quarterly continues a tradition of wellresearched and useful scholarship within its purview. It can, also, stand alone as a unique and valuable contribution to American Studies more generally. Its theme, '"My Southern Home': The Lives and Literature of 19th-Century Southern Black Writers," alludes to My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People by William Wells Brown. However, Brown's assertion of belonging and possessing, like his claims of authority, did not make much impact upon nineteenth-century readers. Despite increasing familiarity with works of African American writers, it is highly probable that many twenty-first century readers will not immediately ...