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"I Was Tellin It": Race, Gender, and the Puzzle of the Storyteller

"I Was Tellin It": Race, Gender, and the Puzzle of the Storyteller "I Was Tellin It": Race, Gender, and the Puzzle of the Storyteller Anne Goodwyn Jones Southern Cultures, Volume 5, Number 1, 1999, pp. 29-43 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1999.0058 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423799/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:58 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY "I Was Tellin It" Race, Gender, and the Puzzle of the Storyteller Anne Goodwyn Jones a~'d like to diank Drew Faust for taking on what still seems in some quarters to be an unpopular project: applying actual thought to popular literature. Between Faulkner and Mitchell, scholars have chosen Faulkner. Few have taken Gone with the Wind seriously enough to write about it. It's not anthologized, eitiier. Of the southern literature anthologies I've seen, the only one to include a portion of, or even mention of, Gone with the Wind, is the OxfordBook oftheAmerican South, whose senior editor, Ed Ayers, is a historian.1 Certainly one of the reasons for this criti- cal and andiological neglect is the sheer size of the 1037-page book. Another must be the flapping of the last tatters of the old boundary dividing high litera- ture, demanding study, from popular literature, which http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

"I Was Tellin It": Race, Gender, and the Puzzle of the Storyteller

Jones, Anne Goodwyn
Southern Cultures , Volume 5 (1) – Jan 4, 2012
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"I Was Tellin It": Race, Gender, and the Puzzle of the Storyteller Anne Goodwyn Jones Southern Cultures, Volume 5, Number 1, 1999, pp. 29-43 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1999.0058 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423799/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 16:58 GMT from JHU Libraries ESSAY "I Was Tellin It" Race, Gender, and the Puzzle of the Storyteller Anne Goodwyn Jones a~'d like to diank Drew Faust for taking on what still seems in some quarters to be an unpopular project: applying actual thought to popular literature. Between Faulkner and Mitchell, scholars have chosen Faulkner. Few have taken Gone with the Wind seriously enough to write about it. It's not anthologized, eitiier. Of the southern literature anthologies I've seen, the only one to include a portion of, or even mention of, Gone with the Wind, is the OxfordBook oftheAmerican South, whose senior editor, Ed Ayers, is a historian.1 Certainly one of the reasons for this criti- cal and andiological neglect is the sheer size of the 1037-page book. Another must be the flapping of the last tatters of the old boundary dividing high litera- ture, demanding study, from popular literature, which

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