Research Catalog

Title

Witnessing / Ellen Douglas.

Author

Douglas, Ellen, 1921-2012.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Description

xv, 198 pages; 21 cm

Summary

"These essays from four decades show us how Ellen Douglas has been reading the great writers who have shaped her art, and how she has been thinking and feeling about events in the world from which her work draws energy and form. She remembers her youth and family. She tells about the circle of her friends, Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, and others. She transcribes a first-person account of the violence on campus when James Meredith integrated Ole Miss. She looks back at her predecessors, including William Faulkner and the uncelebrated memoirist, Mary Hamilton, whose life in the early lumber camps along the river is no less amazing than any fiction."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Douglas, Ellen, 1921-2012 > Homes and haunts > Mississippi
• Riots > Mississippi
• Mississippi > Civilization
• American literature > Mississippi > History and criticism
• Meredith, James
• College integration > Mississippi
• Mississippi > In literature
• Authors, American > Homes and haunts > Mississippi
• Mississippi > Intellectual life > 20th century

Contents

A writer's good luck -- On trials of the earth : the autobiography of Mary Hamilton -- Where is Bynam Woods? -- Sisters -- Neighborhoods -- Proust, Ava Gardner, and the last frontier -- William Faulkner and others -- Faulkner's women -- Thinking about Richard Wright -- On Eudora Welty -- Imaginary countries -- Introduction to The magic carpet and other tales -- Advice to young writers -- Writing and reality -- Grass roots politics -- A long night.

ISBN

1578066700 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004004848

OCLC

• 54537172
• ocm54537172
• SCSB-5077840

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries