Hurtin' Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South
(Part of the New Directions in Southern Studies Series)
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When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E," she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South. Ownby shows that it was common for both African Americans and whites to discuss family life in terms of crisis, but they reached very different...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469647001
ISBN13:9781469647005
Release Date:December 2018
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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