Record #:

16353

Author(s):

Owen, Guy

Abstract:

When Erskine Caldwell published his first full-length novel in 1932, he was soon launched as one of the South's most widely read novelists and storytellers. He reached his peak in the late 1930s and 40s, declining after World War II. Now, he almost totally neglected by students of American literature. In the 1940s William Faulkner ranked Caldwell, along with Thomas Wolfe, among the greatest 20th-century American novelists, and was considered for the Nobel Prize for literature. Studded throughout his stories and non-fiction is the recurring theme of folklore, most learned from the African Americans and farm hands he work with as a youth.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 3, Dec 1979, p80-87 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Caldwell, Erskine, 1903-1987; Novelists, American

Record #:

16354

Author(s):

Barrick, Mac E.

Abstract:

The importance of fried fatback in the diet of Southern African Americans and poor whites has long been recognized, but a Carolina colloquialism which describes it as Texas Chicken, seems to have escaped the notice of lexicographers, folklorists, and dialect scholars. The North Carolina phrase is an example of the ethnophaulism or ethnic slur that figures prominently in the folk speech of many regions of the United States. Study of such phrases not only sheds light on the foodways of a people, but also reveals latent attitudes toward outsiders.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 3, Dec 1979, p88-92 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Colloquialism; Folk speech

Record #:

35804

Author(s):

Driscoll, Anita Gae; Blansfield, Karen; Baldwin, Karen; McGowan, Thomas

Abstract:

This bibliography surveys scholarly and popular materials about folk life in North and South Carolina published during the 1970s.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 27 Issue 3, Dec 1979, p56-60, bibl Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Folklife