When I got back to Florida, @gabrielwinant sent me this passage from an historian of the American South, and I think about it every other day.pic.twitter.com/9WwAgfCrvf
1. Writer, The Nation https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ … 2. email: jeetheer1967 at gmail dot com 3. Twitter essayist 4. Drawn by Joe Ollmann
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When I got back to Florida, @gabrielwinant sent me this passage from an historian of the American South, and I think about it every other day.pic.twitter.com/9WwAgfCrvf
I think Woodward thought the narrative of defeat, normally reactionary, could be turned towards something progressive and useful, which is a very suggestive idea (even though it has yet to be born out).
It's been a long time since I read that essay but my memory is that Woodward meant experience of suffering, marginalization, defeat to be a regional identity shared by whites & blacks.
Obviously it comes apart on the shoals of social reality. Still, I'm attracted to attempt to imagine a shared identity based on suffering and defeat
I think, just to clarify why thinking about this is a repetition compulsion for me, there is a kernel of truth to this that gets mobilized, more often, toward invidious recrimination and isolation, absent some stronger social-political bulwark to channel it toward emancipation.
It’s the latter that white southerners are often skeptical of precisely because of their sense of tragedy—their tragedy is too narrow and runs afoul of what Woodward says here.
That's very well put. Obviously the impulses Woodward is describing in real world lead to something curdled & snarly. Still, worth imaging alternative paths they could take.
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