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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Confederates in the Attic and the Haunted South', 1.
  • Essays 'Confederates in the Attic and the Haunted South', 2.
Extract

Impossible To Forget an Open Wound
American's obsession with the Civil War has produced well over 60,000 different books. Two road narratives that contain journeys covering nearly the same concepts but by very different authors are Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz and South of Haunted Dreams by Eddy L. Harris. These men are both educated and experienced. Beyond this they share nothing. Each man goes on his own trip, and finds the South an open wound that in their own way, everyone is trying to forget.
Eddie Harris' trip is a personal voyage. …

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