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Making the Past: The Politics of Southern Memory

Making the Past: The Politics of Southern Memory Making the Past: The Politics of Southern Memory by Lindsay Byron Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory. By Kimberly Wallace-Sanders. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2008. xvii + 224 pp. $40.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South. By Kenneth J. Bindas. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2007. 192 pp. $59.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. "There is no such thing as was -- only is," William Faulkner famously surmised in a 1956 interview with The Paris Review. The spirit of this Faulknerian sentiment permeates both Kimberly WallaceSanders's Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory and Kenneth Bindas's Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South, as each text offers examinations of the past in the context of a present and continuous construction. The similarities, however, end there. In Mammy, Wallace-Sanders utilizes an integrated examination of literature, material culture, and popular icons to deconstruct representations of the mammy figure from the 1820s through the 1930s in order to reveal what this stereotype says about the needs of the dominant class. From over five hundred interviews of a generation of rural southerners, Bindas composes a portrait in Remembering the Great Depression in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Making the Past: The Politics of Southern Memory

Byron, Lindsay.
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 42 (2) – Jul 4, 2010
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Making the Past: The Politics of Southern Memory by Lindsay Byron Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory. By Kimberly Wallace-Sanders. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2008. xvii + 224 pp. $40.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South. By Kenneth J. Bindas. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 2007. 192 pp. $59.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. "There is no such thing as was -- only is," William Faulkner famously surmised in a 1956 interview with The Paris Review. The spirit of this Faulknerian sentiment permeates both Kimberly WallaceSanders's Mammy: A Century of Race, Gender, and Southern Memory and Kenneth Bindas's Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South, as each text offers examinations of the past in the context of a present and continuous construction. The similarities, however, end there. In Mammy, Wallace-Sanders utilizes an integrated examination of literature, material culture, and popular icons to deconstruct representations of the mammy figure from the 1820s through the 1930s in order to reveal what this stereotype says about the needs of the dominant class. From over five hundred interviews of a generation of rural southerners, Bindas composes a portrait in Remembering the Great Depression in

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