{"product_id":"9781469615936","title":"Southern Cultures: The Help Special Issue: Volume 20: Number 1 - Spring 2014 Issue","description":"Southern Cultures: \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e Special Issue\u003cbr\u003eVolume 20:  Number 1 – Spring 2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFront Porch, \u003cbr\u003eby Harry L. Watson\u003cbr\u003e\"Lauded for her endless gifts and selfless generosity, Mammy is summoned from the kitchen to refute the critics of southern race relations; cruelly circumscribed and taken for granted, she silently confirms them all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Divided Reception of The Help\u003cbr\u003eby Suzanne W. Jones\u003cbr\u003eThe more one examines the reception of \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e, the less one is able to categorize the reception as divided between blacks and whites or academics and general readers or those who have worked as domestics and those who haven't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlack Women's Memories and \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Valerie Smith\u003cbr\u003e\"Cultural products—literary texts, television series, films, music, theatre, etc.—that look back on the Movement tell us at least as much about how contemporary culture views its own racial politics as they do about the past they purport to represent, often conveying the fantasy that the United States has triumphed over and transcended its racial past.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A Stake in the Story\":  Kathryn Stockett's \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e, Ellen Douglas's \u003ci\u003eCan't Quit You, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Politics of Southern Storytelling\u003cbr\u003eby Susan V. Donaldson\u003cbr\u003e\"Like \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCan't Quit You, Baby\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the layers of habit, antipathy, resentment, suspicion, attachment, and silence linking white employer and black employee, but in ways that are far more unsettling.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We Ain't Doin' Civil Rights\":  The Life and Times of a Genre, as Told in \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Allison Graham\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps because the modern Civil Rights Movement and television news came of age together, the younger medium was destined to become an iconographic feature of the civil rights genre.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery Child Left Behind:  Minny's Many Invisible Children in \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eby Kimberly Wallace-Sanders\u003cbr\u003e\"The question arises: wouldn't the mammy characters be rendered more believable in their altruism if it extended beyond white children to all children?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKathryn Stockett's Postmodern First Novel\u003cbr\u003eby Pearl McHaney\u003cbr\u003e\"Pleasure and anger are dependent on one another for heightened authenticity. Discussing \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e with delight and outrage seems just the right action.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot Forgotten: Twenty-Five Years Out from Telling Memories\u003cbr\u003eConversations Between Mary Yelling and Susan Tucker\u003cbr\u003ecompiled and introduced by Susan Tucker\u003cbr\u003e\"I am glad she used what the women told us and made something different from it. She made people listen. I know it is fiction, and I know not everyone liked it, but she made people not forget. What more can you want?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMason-Dixon Lines\u003cbr\u003ePrayer for My Children\u003cbr\u003epoetry by Kate Daniels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47126037725424,"sku":"9781469615936","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469615936_p0.jpg?v=1763699147","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469615936","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}