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essAy .................... "That Ain't Your Name" An Engaged Identity and Other Gifts from a Dysfunctional Southern Family by Wade Clark Roof "No southerner speaks about their region without mentioning family." --William R. Ferris 1 "There was no escaping the feeling that you're an oddity, not quite in the way of Johnny Cash's `boy named Sue,' yet peculiar enough, like a bastard child or abandoned baby, to require an introduction singling you out as different." Courtesy of Wade Clark Roof (here, at age 3). FA M I ly The family saga as a literary form is common in much southern literature. Families are viewed as arenas where deep conflicts and mixed emotions play out, often across generations; where people's identities and values are linked to a tragic past; where ties to the land are strong and a sense of providential order and destiny prevails; and where black and white, the poor and the privileged are inextricably bound. My own family story revolves around a succession of names on my three birth certificates. The first lists me as Wayne Clark Roof, given to me at birth in Columbia, South Carolina. Presumably, my mother wanted me to have my father's name,
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Nov 4, 2012
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