The Saga of Coe Ridge (eBook)

A Study in Oral History

William Lynwood Montell (Autor)

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2024 | 1
256 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
979-8-89527-003-5 (ISBN)

Infos

. . . a new and long needed departure in American historiography. . . . This is in every way an impressive book. It contains detailed accounts of the informants, tables of folklore motifs, genealogical charts, a prologue and epilogue explaining authoritatively the hypotheses of oral traditional history, and handsome photographs of the Coe Ridge area. Richard M. Dorson, Journal of American History Lynwood Montell has written an invaluable book for all those interested in the use of oral tradition as a tool in the reconstruction of history. . . . This is a book worthy of being on any folklorists shelf. Richard A. Reuss, Journal of American Folklore Few Black groups in the United States carry with them the romance, the gripping history, the pathos, the indestructible spirit of the Coe Ridge colony during its ninety years of existence. Founded by a family of freedmen after the Civil War, the Coe colony produced a people who fought fiercely to defend their lives and property; the isolated community became a refuge for white women banned from their own society, a stronghold of moonshiners and bootleggers, and a battleground for feuds. In addition to telling an unusual story,The Saga of Coe Ridgestands as a work of seminal importance for the study of local history. Facing a dearth of written sources, the author reconstructs the past of the community from tape-recorded interviews with former members, their descendants, and their white neighbors. Dr. Montell identifies universal folklore elements in the narratives and judiciously corroborates verbal accounts with relevant printed and manuscript records. Historians will find here an exemplar for future studies. For historians of Black America, the work is particularly valuable, because it provides the direction toward other histories of similar Black groups and suggests a method of obtaining and presentingthese histories before the sources are scattered beyond retrieval.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: African American communities • African American History • Black History • Coe Ridge area • Coe Ridge colony • cultural heritage • Cultural History • Detailed accounts • emotional legacy. • Folklore • Folklore and Mythology • folklorist resources • genealogical charts • historical narratives • historical reconstruction • Journal of American Folklore • Lynwood Montell • motifs • oral accounts • Oral tradition • Photograph • Social Science
• ISBN-13: 979-8-89527-003-5 / 9798895270035