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Goodbye Babylon
Date: 23 June 2008 Time: 1 - 2:30 pm
Allen Shelton is associate professor at Buffalo State College, New York
near Lake Erie. He grew up on a Black Angus farm in northeastern
Alabama. His new book Dreamworlds of Alabama 2007 from the
University of Minnesota Press "striates threads from the author's childhood
with invocations of Kafka, Marx, and Benjamin."
In the past his work was described as autoethnographic but now
practitioners of the genre reject his work as such. "It isn't even about the
self." Instead his "work is part memory, part social theory, part lyrical
evocation of the Appalachian foothills." One reviewer described Shelton
as "a monastic insect knight on the run…. a gracehopper." "In the end
Shelton stands in the midst of the family property he no longer owns," an
exile unrecognizable as a Southerner. "Goodbye Babylon."
"Shelton displays both his impressive narrative gifts as a memoirist and the
emotional constraints of academic discourse. Whenever the author relies
principally on the power of his own stories, the poignancy of his images, his
essays are fiercely gripping." —Kirkus Reviews
Sponsored by the Departments of History, Sociology and The Journal of Historical Sociology (Wiley-Blackwell)
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