I'll Take My Stand

<p>First published in 1930 the essays in this manifesto constitute one of the outstanding cultural documents in the history of the South. In it twelve southerners-Donald Davidson John Gould Fletcher Henry Blue Kline Lyle H. Lanier Stark Young Allen Tate Andrew Nelson Lytle Herman Clarence Nixon Frank Lawrence Owsley John Crowe Ransom John Donald Wade and Robert Penn Warren-defended individualism against the trend of baseless conformity in an increasingly mechanized and dehumanized society.</p><p>In her new introduction Susan V. Donaldson shows that the Southern Agrarians might have ultimately failed in their efforts to revive the South they saw as traditional stable and unified but they nonetheless sparked debates and quarrels about history literature race gender and regional identity that are still being waged today over Confederate flags monuments slavery and public memory.</p>