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My Father

My Father My Father_ Ruth R. Miller Even ifhe were not my father, just knowing Jim Wayne Miller would have had the most profound impact on my life. But he was my father, which makes me the luckiest and most unfortunate person in this room. Having him as a father gave us children such an unreasonable example to live up to. Having such an extraordinary light beaming in your own home can have the effect ofblinding you, leaving you dumb struck, frozen in awe, and with the knowledge that nothing you do can catapult you to his level of greatness. This greatness in his academic work, his artistic expression, his larger than life persona, cast an immense shadow from which I sometimes wished to escape. In choosing a master's thesis topic, I tried to elude his area ofexpertise. By studying African American popular culture, I thought I could escape his genius. The more I worked on my topic and developed the things I wanted to say, the more I realized that my father had expressed these very opinions in his work on Southern culture. None of my ideas, it turned out, were original. They had all come, as if by http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

My Father

Miller, Ruth R.
Appalachian Review , Volume 25 (4) – Jan 8, 1997
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My Father_ Ruth R. Miller Even ifhe were not my father, just knowing Jim Wayne Miller would have had the most profound impact on my life. But he was my father, which makes me the luckiest and most unfortunate person in this room. Having him as a father gave us children such an unreasonable example to live up to. Having such an extraordinary light beaming in your own home can have the effect ofblinding you, leaving you dumb struck, frozen in awe, and with the knowledge that nothing you do can catapult you to his level of greatness. This greatness in his academic work, his artistic expression, his larger than life persona, cast an immense shadow from which I sometimes wished to escape. In choosing a master's thesis topic, I tried to elude his area ofexpertise. By studying African American popular culture, I thought I could escape his genius. The more I worked on my topic and developed the things I wanted to say, the more I realized that my father had expressed these very opinions in his work on Southern culture. None of my ideas, it turned out, were original. They had all come, as if by

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Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 8, 1997

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