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e-Book Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place (Center Books on the American South) download

e-Book Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place (Center Books on the American South) download

by Sudye Cauthen

ISBN: 1930066589
ISBN13: 978-1930066588
Language: English
Publisher: Center for American Places at Columbia C (November 15, 2007)
Pages: 112
Category: Professionals and Academics
Subategory: Memoris

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In Southern Comforts, this fifth-generation Floridian blends memoir, oral . Sudye Cauthen, founder of the North Florida Center for Documentary Studies, directed Florida's first ools program.

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 and traditions are replaced by interstates, condos, shopping malls, and the new way of life they represent.

This books ( Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place (Center Books on the American South) ) Made by Sudye Cauthen About Books Southern Comforts The Florida I love is perishing, says Sudye Cauthen. In "Southern Comforts," this. 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.

Sudye Cauthen was reared in Alachua County Florida and the author of Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place .

Sudye Cauthen was reared in Alachua County Florida and the author of Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place & Florida's.

The book is organized into two major. to a place which, consciously, she has tried to leave for decades. Cauthen’s self-questioning moves Southern Comforts out of straight memoir and toward something else. parts, one focusing on the countryside and the other on the town, and a third briefer part that revisits the. changed place today. The two major parts can be seen as relating in several ways – a move from the wider.

Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place (Center Books on the American South Se.  . Sudye Cauthen has written a resonant and evocative book about the place where she grew up and watched change. Sudye Cauthen. The road speaks, she writes, and she has listened well, rendering Bellamy Road with inspired words that convey the sensory life there, the remembered experiences and the family and community members who come alive for readers, and the deep marks on the landscape left from prehistoric beasts to Timucan Indians to frontier ancestors to her own neighbors and friends. Her words sing with passion for the place.

Through their words and hers, Cauthen explores northern Florida's unique history Center Books on the American South.

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Request PDF On Aug 10, 2009, T. Hallock and others published Southern Comforts: Rooted in a Florida Place .

Thesis (Ph. -University of Florida, 1997. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 140-154). A study of one southern place : Alachua, Florida /. Cauthen.

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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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Browelali
In his poem "Bearded Oaks," Robert Penn Warren wrote, "We live in time so little time/ And we learn all so painfully,/ That we may spare this hour's term/ To practice for eternity." Warren's work is largely an effort to capture the eternity of the moment, to find the universal in a concrete experience, an effort that is taken up by Cauthen. She sees, perhaps better than Warren, though, that we are spatial as well as temporal beings and that the meanings of our lives are embedded in the depth of time and spread through the places we have inhabited.

While Southern Comforts is probably best described as organic memoir, Cauthen effortlessly melds genres to show how the lives of occupants of a particular place intertwine like matted roots. In an imagistic, poetic style, she proves that there's no such thing as an ordinary life, that no one really lives independently, and that sifted through the hands of a gifted writer all soils become fertile.

Wherever you are from, this book will make you feel that you have practiced for eternity in this Florida place.

Gldasiy
"Southern Comforts" is an evocative prose poem of a place - Alachua, Florida - its countryside and town - its people, Native Americans, black, white, young, old, family, friends, living, and dead - and their stories, fact and fable, that coalese and collect in one woman's search for herself. The author is a rare species, a fifth-generation Floridian whose ancestors came to Alachua in horse-drawn wagons in a state ever increasingly populated with transplants.

"Tell me the landscape in which you live," Cauthen quotes Jose Ortega y Gasset, "and I will tell you who you are." Through her exploration of all aspects of her landscape comes, if not peace, self-knowledge and the comforts of understanding, a portal to the present through memories of things past. "Southern Comforts" points a way to those of us who seek why we are who and where we are and how we may find our way and place in today and tomorrow.

Friert
A Memoir to Remember

This is an amazing book and I would like to order another one for another friend. The Amazon service was remarkably smooth and the book arrived punctually and in very good condition.
Virginia Cazort, Ph.D.

snowball
One of the most compelling human needs can be summed up in four words: Tell me a story. Sudye Cauthen is a storyteller; from the first paragraph of the preface, I was hooked on Southern Comforts.

Cauthen writes, "This work emerged from a struggle to see my home community and myself in perspective . . . Who I am is intrinsically entwined with place." Her place is Alachua, a small, rural community in northern Florida. A fifth generation Floridian, Cauthen is a writer, poet, folklorist and oral historian who has made a decades-long study of Alachua. She has preserved on tape the voices and stories of generations now gone or almost gone, as the community and the world around it changed. Those voices are added to Cauthen's own in her narrative.

Cauthen has been part of the change, but she has also been the watcher, the seeker, the chronicler of the community's fitful struggle to adapt to a new reality. Her strength of feeling for place, her simple and graceful prose, and her understanding of the ties between rural people and their land bring to mind Wendell Berry. But her voice is all her own - wry and insightful, with a restrained passion for the place that defines her. She has an acute eye for the telling detail. And like good poetry, her work carries a weight that is more than the sum of its parts.

To read Cauthen's words - like hearing the wind in longleaf pines, the calls of sandhill cranes, or the songs of Will McLean - is to be touched by the real Florida. Southern Comforts is at once a rewarding memoir, an astute social history and an evocation of a unique place that is disappearing. Don't miss this book. Really.

Kecq
Beautifully written, beautifully bound - I purchased six copies and gave five to friends, all of whom love this book.

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