This work is a moving meditation on what Florida has lost and still stands to lose ""The Florida I love is perishing,"" says Sudye Cauthen. In ""Southern Comforts"", this fifth-generation Floridian blends memoir, oral history, and cultural geography to explore the ""tensions between community and environment"" in America today and her own ambivalence about Alachua, the place just north of Gainesville where she was born and reared. Cauthen raises a cry for all that is lost as Florida's, and America's, landscapes and ...
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This work is a moving meditation on what Florida has lost and still stands to lose ""The Florida I love is perishing,"" says Sudye Cauthen. In ""Southern Comforts"", this fifth-generation Floridian blends memoir, oral history, and cultural geography to explore the ""tensions between community and environment"" in America today and her own ambivalence about Alachua, the place just north of Gainesville where she was born and reared. Cauthen raises a cry for all that is lost as Florida's, and America's, landscapes and traditions are replaced by interstates, condos, shopping malls, and the new way of life they represent. Part self-reflection, part meditation, and part social analysis, Cauthen's work threads through the stories of blacks, whites, and Native Americans - men and women - including her own family members. Through their words and hers, Cauthen explores northern Florida's unique history, culture, and geography while she seeks a greater understanding of herself and her surroundings. Cauthen's journey takes readers down dirt roads and city streets, to her people's tobacco fields and churches. She sifts sand at an archaeological dig for the lost Spanish mission of Santa Fe de Toloca, peers into an aboriginal grave, and everywhere marshals evidence for the primacy of place in determining who we are. One story takes us on a fox hunt; another reveals lingering racial problems. Permeating, the book is the ever-present menace of growth and development and what it holds for Cauthen's Florida.
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New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 194 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Maps, Frontispiece. Center Books on the American South. Audience: General/trade. New book, signed by the author!
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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Good solid ex-library book with the usual stamps, numbers & plastic over the cover. Plastic shows some scuffing wear. Pages are free of writing & tight with some corner, edge, ruffling & smudging wear.
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Used-VG in Good jacket. This book is well-loved and in good condition. Minor wear from use. Help support Orca Books Cooperative--Olympia's only Co-op Bookstore!
