Title: Southern farmers and their stories : memory and meaning in oral history /
Authors: Walker, Melissa, 1962-
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Farm life Southern States History Historiography.; Farmers Southern States Interviews.; Oral history.; Memory Social aspects Southern States.; Interviews Southern States.; Southern States Social life and customs Historiography.; Southern States Rural conditions Historiography.; Southern States Biography
Abstract: "In Southern Farmers and Their Stories, Melissa Walker explores the ways in which a diverse array of farmers remember and recount the past. The book tells the story of the modernization of the South in the voices of those most affected by the decline of traditional ways of life and work. Walker analyzes the recurring patterns in their narratives of change and loss, filling in gaps left by more conventional political and economic histories of southern agriculture."--Jacket.
Contents: Three southern farmers tell their stories -- Rural Southerners and the community of memory -- Memory and the nature of transformation -- Memory and the meaning of change -- The present shapes stories about the past.