Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama: The Humor of John Gorman Barr

ISBN-13: 9780817304775 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 232 str.

John Gorman Barr; G. Ward Hubbs

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The rollicking tales of Old Southwestern humor were a distinctive contribution to American folk culture provided by the frontiersmen of the South and Southwest, a tradition brought to its highest form in the work of Mark Twain.Among the precursors of Twain was John Gorman Barr of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.Like Twain, Barr grew up in a river town, worked in a printing office, and traveled widely; and again like Twain, Barr drew upon the people and places of his home region as the primary sources for his tales.
In addition to the pure entertainment Barr s stories provide, they also furnish a comprehensive picture of Tuscaloosa and western Alabama in the 1850sthe roaring river town coexisting uneasily with the intellectual sophistication of the recently established University of Alabama.
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