Hobson applies the term "racial conversion narrative" to several autobiographies or works of highly personal social commentary by Lillian Smith, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, James McBride Dabbs, Sarah Patton Boyle, Will Campbell, Larry L. King, Willie Morris, Pat Watters, and other southerners, books written between the mid-1940s and the late 1970s in which the authors - all products of and willing participants in a harsh, segregated society - confess racial wrongdoings and are "converted," in varying degrees, from racism to something approaching racial enlightenment. Indeed, the language of many of these works is, Hobson points out, the language of religious conversion - "sin," "guilt," "blindness," "seeing the light," "repentance," "redemption," and so forth. Hobson also looks at recent autobiographical volumes by Ellen Douglas, Elizabeth Spencer, and Rick Bragg to show how the medium persists, if in a somewhat different form, even at the very end of the twentieth century.
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THE TERM "CONVERSION NARRATIVE," at least in American letters, usually refers to a particular form of expression arising in New England in the seventeenth century-either such written works as Cotton Mather's lengthy Paterna and Jonathan Edwards' much briefer "Personal Narrative" or, more narrowly defined, that oral confession of sins by ordinary men and women, usually delivered before a church congregation, a confession heard and recorded by a minister and which, if the candidate were judged worthy, resulted in "conversion" and church membership. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
racial conversion narrative, southern autobiography, racial sins, deformed conscience, racial guilt, other white southerners, north toward home, racial transgressions, racial transformation, southern evangelicals, southern liberals, autobiographical impulse, southern mind Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lillian Smith, New York, Civil Rights Movement, Killers of the Dream, African Americans, Martin Luther King, Will Campbell, Sarah Patton Boyle, The Desegregated Heart, Katharine Lumpkin, Willie Morris, South Carolina, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, World War, Nat Turner, Patty Boyle, Sand Hills, The Southern Heritage, Virginia Durr, Lost Cause, Supreme Court, The Winner Names the Age, American South, Civil War, John Egerton New!
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THE TERM "CONVERSION NARRATIVE," at least in American letters, usually refers to a particular form of expression arising in New England in the seventeenth century-either such written works as Cotton Mather's lengthy Paterna and Jonathan Edwards' much briefer "Personal Narrative" or, more narrowly defined, that oral confession of sins by ordinary men and women, usually delivered before a church congregation, a confession heard and recorded by a minister and which, if the candidate were judged worthy, resulted in "conversion" and church membership. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
racial conversion narrative, southern autobiography, racial sins, deformed conscience, racial guilt, other white southerners, north toward home, racial transgressions, racial transformation, southern evangelicals, southern liberals, autobiographical impulse, southern mind Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lillian Smith, New York, Civil Rights Movement, Killers of the Dream, African Americans, Martin Luther King, Will Campbell, Sarah Patton Boyle, The Desegregated Heart, Katharine Lumpkin, Willie Morris, South Carolina, Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, World War, Nat Turner, Patty Boyle, Sand Hills, The Southern Heritage, Virginia Durr, Lost Cause, Supreme Court, The Winner Names the Age, American South, Civil War, John Egerton New!
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- Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith on 20 pages
- The Making of a Southerner by Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin on 7 pages
- The Winner Names the Age: A Collection of Writings by Lillian Smith on 6 pages
- African Americans (Coming to America (Barron's Educational)) by David Boyle on 6 pages
- The Mind of the South by W.J. Cash on 6 pages
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- Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties by Suzanne W. Jones in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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