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Literary Nonfiction. "We're born into a world already in progress, like arriving late at a movie. Erin Tocknell, born to Nashville, loved the city in a wide-eyed, child's way, before she had a glimmer of the history that had shaped what she took to be her world. CONFEDERATE STREETS recalls how it feels to wake up to history, to understand you are living right in the midst of it. Not all the lessons are easy, but in Tocknell's telling we come to appreciate the rewards of facing up to the hard facts, of refusing the false glamour of living innocent of history. CONFEDERATE STREETS reminds us what as a nation we seem always to be forgetting, just how far love and understanding and goodwill can take us toward the promised America"—Kevin Oderman.
- Sales Rank: #973964 in Books
- Published on: 2011-03-19
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 5.50" w x .50" l, .45 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 141 pages
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Part memoir, part literary journalism, part history, Erin Tocknell's beautiful book investigates the landscape of memory, enlarging our sense of what it means to be from a particular place. A fearless and compassionate eye informs these pages, revealing how rich a so- called ordinary life can be, and how necessarily embedded in history and geography, even and especially in a country that devalues both. It's the kind of book that makes you reflect on your own life in new ways, a book I can't wait to teach students struggling to tell their own stories. --Jane McCafferty, National Endowment for the Arts Fellow and author One Heart
In Confederate Streets, Erin E. Tocknell takes us to two Nashvilles: the one that shaped her sensibility as a writer a rich, green, inviting landscape of backyard grapevine swings and cooling high jumps into the swim and tennis club pool, church choir practice and youth group outings, bluegrass, country, and the Grand Ole Opry and the Nashville that was hiding in plain sight because of the segregation that persists in the city to this day. e Nashville Tocknell brings to life as a result of archival research and personal interviews its black ministers, musicians, teachers, principals, and students is rendered with the same lyricism and power as her evocations of the city she knew in her own childhood, under the skin. Whether she is chronicling the local history of busing and zoning, or taking us inside a 1930s club in the Jim Crow South to hear Harmonica Wizard Deford Bailey take the stage, or bringing us into her own church to hear an all-but-forgotten white minister preach against segregation twenty years before she was born, Tocknell s essays are loving tributes to ordinary citizens who have worked for social change in the city that she and they have called home. --Natalia Rachel Singer, author of Scraping by in the Big Eighties
Erin Tocknell has written a rich memoir Confederate Streets, set in the backdrop of Nashville s 1980s school desegregation period. Entering first grade in 1984, Tocknell shows us her Nashville, a white suburban neighborhood where most of her friends and neighbors go to private school and spent their summers at the Wildwood Swim and Tennis Club. Green dominates the landscape of my memories in southwestern Nashville. We lived in a house halfway up a ridge in a neighborhood called Forest Hills, bordered by Green Hills to the north, Oak Hill to the east, and Belle Meade to the west. This was the affluent part of town... This new author not just charts her world, but takes us on a journey of her Confederate Streets, by showing us some important moments of Nashville s racial history: we learn that the first organized sit-in took place by Fisk University, Tennessee A & I, the American Baptist College students, five days after the sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina; and Nashville adopted its own response to Brown vs. Board of the Education, by adopting Kelly vs. the Board of Education, which included a grade-a-year desegregation plan. Growing up with empathic parents to the cause of human rights, and a curiosity about what was happening around her, in her Nashville, Erin Tocknell with powerful language writes about her fears, the power of knowledge, but most important, she reminds us all to remember to ask questions. Erin Tocknell graceful writing reminds us how connected we are through a sense of place and time. --Ethel Smith author From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College
About the Author
Erin E. Tocknell was born and raised in Nashville, but has lived and studied in Pittsburgh, Penn., Kalispell, Mont. and Morgantown, W.Va. Once an award-winning staff reporter for the Columbia Daily Herald in Columbia, Tenn., her essays have been published in The Southern Review, Creative Nonfiction, and the Tampa Review. In 2007 she was the winner of the AWP Intro Journals Award for creative nonfiction. She currently resides in Chattanooga, Tenn., where she teaches literature and writing and coaches rowing at the The McCallie School.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Beautifully woven
By Diana Copenhagen
There is so much story here, and so many stories, in one small space. There is also poetry. Perhaps the most enjoyable part of reading this book is the vivid, precise imagery, illuminating parts of the author's life until your heart feels wrung out like a dishrag, lovely and complete, at the end of every chapter. No detail goes unnoticed, un-described. The woman in red at the bus stop, the watery coffee at Shoney's, Tocknell wants us to be right there with her, in her life, and we are. What is also admirable is how the book avoids being verbose and sprawling, because it is seemingly about ("about") everything. The reader just floats along, carried from page to page, story to story, city to city, life to life, until the end. We learn about race, history, identity, civil rights, education in America, and more, without even realizing it because this isn't written like a textbook. The style is engaging and real, sometimes serious and other times hilarious. It is creative non-fiction to get excited about.
Tocknell is a fearless writer and she grabs difficult topics by the throat often. She peers at racism and segregation in a way more writers should: directly, honestly, and without overdoing it. Another subject Tocknell takes on is the meaning of home. The early chapter "What Trees Become" is particularly striking, poetic, and philosophical as she examines the very grains of wood that compose her childhood home in Nashville. When I think about Tocknell writing this book, I don't see her at a computer, but in front of a floor loom, the bright yarn of her words intersecting in a way that appears effortless.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A strong Southen memoir
By Jason Brooks
Tocknell weaves personal anecdotes into an interesting perspective on the history and culture of Nashville. As Tennessee's capitol city is her stage, her portrait of the region is colored with fascinating snippets of her own childhood. As a native Californian, I found this indubitably Southern book both new and provocative. Simply put, I enjoyed the way Tocknell pushed me to think about her story.
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This Book Cries Out For An Audio Edition
By Lawrence Lewis
At this time of my review, this book is "temporarily out of stock," because I'd recently purchased two copies...for a friend and myself. I'd read an essay by Tocknell in the "Bitter Southerner" website and was duly impressed, so I thought I'd give this somewhat related book a try. The problem is that its print is SO tiny that neither I nor my friend can read it. I do use readers, but have no real eyesight problem. This is just patently ridiculous. The book is literally unreadable. The only smaller font size I think exists must be used by a spy passing secrets inside a matchbook. Order this book only if you're an optometrist and wish to leave it in your waiting room, in hopes of drumming up business. I wonder whether it's any good?
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