I'll Take My Stand
Subtitle: The South And the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civilization)
Contributors: Susan V. Donaldson (Introduction)
Edition: 75 Anv edition
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: October 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9780807132081
Subjects: United States - 20th Century; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Collections; Literature: Classics; Essays; Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject; Civilization; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Southern States
First sentence: IT IS out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward.
Description: First published in 1930, the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it, twelve southerners-Donald Davidson, John Gould Fletcher, Henry Blue Kline, Lyle H. Lanier, Stark Young, Allen Tate, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Herman Clarence Nixon, Frank Lawrence Owsley, John Crowe Ransom, John Donald Wade, and Robert Penn Warren-defended individualism against the trend of baseless conformity in an increasingly mechanized and dehumanized society. In her new introduction, Susan V. Donaldson shows that the Southern Agrarians might have ultimately failed in their efforts to revive the South they saw as traditional, stable, and unified, but they nonetheless sparked debates and quarrels about history, literature, race, gender, and regional identity that are still being waged today over Confederate flags, monuments, slavery, and public memory.