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Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore de Charles Harry Whedbee

Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore

Autor Charles Harry Whedbee
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2004

Observăm că structura volumului Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore funcționează ca o antologie esențială, fiind concepută de echipa editorială de la BLAIR pentru a concentra moștenirea literară a lui Charles Harry Whedbee. Metodologia de selecție a celor 13 texte a vizat reprezentativitatea; sunt incluse povești care definesc identitatea culturală a zonei Outer Banks, de la misterul coloniei pierdute până la legendele despre Blackbeard. Autorul, de profesie judecător, aplică o rigoare observațională unică, clasificându-și materialul în fapte atestate, credințe populare și invenții proprii, fără a deconspira însă apartenența fiecărei povești la o anumită categorie, ceea ce menține o ambiguitate narativă captivantă. Suntem de părere că tonul scriiturii reflectă experiența lui Whedbee ca orator radiofonic: frazele sunt construite pentru a fi „auzite”, păstrând cadența tradiției orale din Carolina de Nord. Comparabil cu Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewater în ceea ce privește rigurozitatea documentării, acest volum este însă actualizat pentru un cititor contemporan care dorește o sinteză a celor mai puternice imagini din întreaga operă a autorului. Dacă în Ghosts from the Coast de Nancy Roberts accentul cade pe latura supranaturală extinsă pe mai multe state, Whedbee rămâne ancorat strict în geografia și spiritul regiunii Tarheelia, oferind o perspectivă mai intimă și mai localizată. Textul nu se rezumă la simpla redare a unor mituri, ci documentează modul în care geografia aspră a coastelor a modelat psihologia colectivă a locuitorilor.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780895872951
ISBN-10: 0895872951
Pagini: 157
Dimensiuni: 130 x 193 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: BLAIR

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de antropologie culturală și folclor marin. Este o poartă de intrare ideală în opera lui Charles Harry Whedbee, oferind cele mai rafinate 13 povestiri ale sale într-un format elegant. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a istoriei informale a Carolinei de Nord, explorând granița dintre realitate și legendă prin ochii unui om care a trăit și a iubit aceste locuri timp de decenii.

Descriere scurtă

An anthology of 14 of the best stories drawn from Whedbee's five celebrated Outer Banks folklore collections, which have charmed readers for over 40 years. (Combined sales are well over a half-million.)

Descriere

In 1963, Judge Charles Whedbee was asked to substitute on a Greenville, NC, morning show called Carolina Today while one of the program's regulars was in the hospital. Whedbee took the opportunity to tell some of the Outer Banks stories he'd heard during his many summers at Nags Head. The station received such a volume of mail in praise of his tale-telling that he was invited to remain even after the man he was substituting for returned to the air. "He had a way of telling a story that really captured me," said one of the program's co-hosts. "Whether he was talking about a sunset, a ghost, or a shipwreck, I was there, living every minute of it." Word traveled as far as Winston-Salem, where John F. Blair proposed to Whedbee that he compile his stories in book form. Whedbee welcomed the challenge, though his expectations for the manuscript that became Legends of the Outer Banks and Tar Heel Tidewater were modest. "I wrote it out of a love for this region and the people whom I'd known all my life," he said. "I didn't think it would sell a hundred copies." From the very first sentence of the foreword, Whedbee stamped the collection with his inimitable style: "You are handed herewith a small pod or school of legends about various portions of that magical region known as the Outer Banks of North Carolina as well as stories from other sections of the broad bays, sounds, and estuaries that make up tidewater Tarheelia." The Lost Colony, Indians, Blackbeard, an albino porpoise that guided ships into harbor--the tales in that volume form the core of Outer Banks folklore. Whedbee liked to tell people that his stories were of three kinds: those he knew to be true, those he believed to be true, and those he fabricated. But despite much prodding, he never revealed which were which. Legends of the Outer Banks went through three printings in 1966, its first year. Demand for Whedbee's tales and the author's supply of good material were such that further volumes were inevitable. The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke & Other Tales of the Outer Banks was published in 1971, Outer Banks Mysteries & Seaside Stories in 1978, Outer Banks Tales to Remember in 1985, and Blackbeard's Cup and Stories of the Outer Banks in 1989. In 2004, the staff of John F. Blair, Publisher, collected 13 of Judge Whedbee's finest stories for Pirates, Ghosts, and Coastal Lore. If this is your introduction to Charles Harry Whedbee, you'll soon understand his love for the people and the history of the Outer Banks. For decades, the folk tales of Charles Harry Whedbee have been available wherever you care to look on the Outer Banks. Their popularity has transcended Whedbee's loyal readership among North Carolinians and visitors from the Northeast and the Midwest. Charles Harry Whedbee was an elected judge in his native Greenville, North Carolina, for thirty-plus years, but his favorite place was the Outer Banks, Nags Head in particular. Whedbee was the author of five folklore collections. He died in 1990.