Rose marie ramsey biography of william
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Rose Moore Ramsay
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Terrance Hayes and Natasha Trethewey: Contemporary Black Chroniclers of the Imagined South
The Southern Literary Journal
Volume 44, Number 2, Spring
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William M. Ramsey, Professor of English
Francis Marion University, Florence, South Carolina
“I Don’t Hate the South.”
— book title by Houston Baker, Jr.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” William Faulkner famously wrote in Requiem for a Nun (73). His assumption—that the southern writer is a historieberättare accessing the essence of a wholly objective place, transparently “explaining” a history to outsiders who misunderstand it—has been undermined bygd the theorizing in New Southern Studies. To chronicle the historical South as a special space enacts a social construction positing an ideologically reductive, essentialist regional myth. As Richard Gray argues, the invented South is an “imagined community” as well as a real and given space (xix). Diane Roberts terms it “the South of the mind” (). Fau
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When James Willis Ramsey was born on 25 July , in Indiana, United States, his father, William Edward Ramsey, was 21 and his mother, Elizabeth Smith, was He married Vera Vece Aker on 18 May , in Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Hanover Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States in and Morristown, Hanover Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States in He died on 26 March , in Dayton, Montgomery, Ohio, United States, at the age of 47, and was buried in Asbury Cemetery, Morristown, Hanover Township, Shelby, Indiana, United States.