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by: Jack Temple Kirby
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 304.20975
EAN: 9780807830574
ISBN: 0807830577
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: October 30, 2006
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Release Date: October 11, 2006
Sales Rank: 484336
Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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The American South is generally warmer, wetter, weedier, snakier, and more insect-infested and disease-prone than other regions of the country. It is alluring to the scientifically and poetically minded alike. With Mockingbird Song, Jack Temple Kirby offers a personal and passionate recounting of the centuries-old human-nature relationship in the South. Exhibiting violent cycles of growth, abandonment, dereliction, resettlement, and reconfiguration, this relationship, Kirby suggests, has the sometimes melodious, sometimes cacophonous vocalizations of the region's emblematic avian, the mockingbird.
In a narrative voice marked by the intimacy and enthusiasm of a storyteller, Kirby explores all of the South's peoples and their landscapes—how humans have used, yielded, or manipulated varying environments and how they have treated forests, water, and animals. Citing history, literature, and cinematic portrayals along the way, Kirby also relates how southerners have thought about their part of Earth—as a source of both sustenance and delight.
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Rating: - Mournful melodies
Although I have strong disagreements with many of the conclusions of Jack Temple Kirby's 'Mockingbird Song,' and some objections to the approach he uses, it is still a wonderfully engaging and provocative inquiry into what went wrong in the blessed South. It doesn't hurt, either, that Kirby writes with wit and charm.
It is probably impossible to write an ecological history of 'the South.' It is too big and too various. Even Kirby admits its 'irreconcilable varieties.' The book is heavily ... Read More
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