But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative

By Fred Hobson

Book Overview

The term "conversion narrative" usually refers to a particular form of expression that arose in Puritan New England in the seventeenth century. In that sense -- the purely religious -- the conversion narrative belongs to a rather remote history. But in this lucid, pathbreaking work, Fred Hobson uses the expression in another sense -- in the realm of the secular -- to describe a much more recent phenomenon, one originating in the American South and marking a new mode of southern self-expression not seen until the 1940s.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807124109
• ISBN13: 9780807124109
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"