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WOMEN'S LITERATURE FROM A REGIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
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COLLECTION, 1977-1978
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UNCC MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION 43
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| Contents: |
Collection Information |
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Historical Note |
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Scope and Content Note |
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Series Descriptions and
Container List |
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Size:
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1.75 linear feet (349 items, including 249 slides and 19 cassette
tapes). |
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North Carolina. |
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| Bulk Dates: |
1977-1978. |
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| Languages: |
English. |
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| Summary: |
Material from a two-semester class taught in 1977-78 by Dr.
Ann C. Carver of the UNC Charlotte English Department and funded through
a grant from the Modern Languages Association. Contains reports, class planning
materials and course evaluations, and student cultural autobiographies,
research projects, and related course work materials. Includes studies of
Gertrude Weil, Cherokee women, Nell Battle Lewis, Anna Burgwyn, evangelists
the Reverend Preilo and Queen Estelle Thompson, Eunice Pace (female merchant
in Saluda, N.C.), women in ECKANAR, and descendants of the Lefler and Alexander
families in Cabarrus County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. |
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| Index Terms: |
Literature -- Study and teaching -- North
Carolina. |
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Modern Language Association of America. |
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University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dept. of English. |
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Women authors, American -- North Carolina. |
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| Sources: |
Gift of class members, 1979. |
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| Access: |
Publication of material from interviews requires permission
of interviewees. These items denoted by an asterisk (*). More information
can be found on the deeds of gift in the collection file. |
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| Copyright: |
Not held by UNC Charlotte Library. |
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| Citation: |
Women's Literature From A Regional Perspective Collection,
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Library. |
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| Contact Information: |
For more information about this collection, please contact:
Special Collections Department
J. Murrey Atkins Library
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223-0001
E-mail: speccoll@email.uncc.edu
Telephone: (704) 687-2449
Fax: (704) 687-2232 |
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| Entitled "Women's Literature from a Regional
Perspective," the course was offered as part of a three-year project
developed by the Modern Language Association's Commission on the Status
of Women in the Profession, and funded by a grant from the Fund for the
Improvement of Secondary Education. |
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| The project, implemented in fifteen institutions
throughout the country, was designed "to improve the teaching of literature
by developing student-centered courses that focus on the history and experience
of American women viewed in relation to regional cultures." Using a
pedagogical approach based on "archival and historical materials, conventional
literature, oral histories, journalism, and written life documents--diaries
and letters," students were to gather, compile, and present their findings
on women's literature of their regions. |
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| UNCC's involvement in the project was coordinated
by Dr. Ann C. Carver of the English Department, who was also responsible
for teaching the class. |
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| This collection documents the activities of the
class, including student research projects and related materials, course
and project evaluations, and planning notes. The Women's Literature from
a Regional Perspective Collection is divided into four series: |
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1: Modern Language Association. |
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2: Class Material. |
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3: Student Projects. |
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4: Miscellany. |
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SERIES DESCRIPTIONS
AND CONTAINER LIST
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| Series 1: |
MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION |
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| This series documents the Modern Language Association
(MLA) project. |
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Contents |
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EVALUATIONS: includes MLA's evaluation of the project at UNC
Charlotte, University of Alabama, and Jackson State University, and Ann
Carver's evaluation of the course at UNCC, entitled "Applying Feminist
Approaches to Learning and Research: A Practical Curriculum Model." |
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GRANT PROPOSAL |
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MONTHLY REPORTS: Carver's monthly reports to MLA's project
director describing the progress and activities of the class. |
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PUBLICATION PROSPECTUS: MLA's prospectus for a publication
based on the project. |
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REPORTS: compilation of reports to the MLA from other participating
institutions. |
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CLASS MATERIAL |
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| This series contains class material. |
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Contents |
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ASSORTED TRANSPARENCIES AND HANDOUTS |
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BOOKJACKETS: from Unto the Hills and Our Heritage by western
North Carolina historian Margaret Walker Freel. |
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COURSE RATIONALE AND CALENDAR |
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PLANNING NOTEBOOKS |
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SCRIPT FOR SLIDE-TAPE PRESENTATION: entitled "North Carolina
Women--A Personal Perspective." |
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STUDENTS' EVALUATIONS OF COURSE |
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SLIDES, CASSETTE TAPES: 180 slides, two carousel trays, a
synchronized cassette tape, and set-up instructions for "North Carolina
Women--A Personal Perspective." Also included in this series (Box 2)
are 69 slides made by the class but not included in the slide-tape presentation;
and four cassette recordings featuring a poetry reading by North Carolina
poets Julia Fields, Barbara Lovell, Minnie Bruce Price, and Julie Suk; Carver's
interviews with Margaret Walker Freel, North Carolina craftswoman Mary Cornwell,
and North Carolina folklorists Linda Cathey and Aurelia Cathey; and the
students' oral first semester progress reports. |
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STUDENT PROJECTS |
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| This series documents the research and related
coursework of 9 of the 10 students in the class. Material is from the following
students: |
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Contents |
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COWAN, NANCY M.: "Gertrude Weil and Her Fight for the
Nineteenth Amendment." Card bibliography and final paper. |
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DAVIS, NANCY L.: "The Poetry of Cherokee Women: Their
Search for Identity." First semester progress report and final paper. |
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FARR, PATRICIA T.: "North Carolina Literature: Discovering
the Past, Discovering Ourselves." Cultural autobiography, project proposal,
card bibliography, and final paper, about News and Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
reporter Nell Battle Lewis. |
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FELTON, SUZANNE D.: "Anna Burgwyn: Her Letters, Her World,
Her Self." Cultural autobiography, project proposal, card bibliography,
and final paper analyzing the letters of a northern woman who moved South
with her family during the mid-1800s. |
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HAGGERTY, BEVERLY: (incomplete) concerns women evangelists.
Research project proposal and transcripts of interviews with evangelists
Reverend Preilo and Queen Estelle Thompson. |
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HAIGHT, KATHY L.: "North Carolina Women in ECKANKAR."
Cultural autobiography, project proposal, first semester progress report,
annotated and card bibliographies, and final paper. Includes transcripts
and recordings* of Haight's interviews with five women involved in ECKANKAR. |
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MARRE, ANNA MARIE: (incomplete). Contains only a card bibliography;
topic undiscernible. |
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MOODY, PAIGE K.: "A Woman and Saluda" (includes
3 cassette tapes)*. Cultural autobiography, project proposal, card and annotated
bibliographies, and a final paper on Eunice Pace, owner of a grocery in
the mountain town of Saluda, N.C. Includes transcripts and tapes* of Moody's
interview with Eunice Pace and her family and other Saluda residents. |
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SIDES, MARGARET N.: "The Heritage of Peggy Sides, 1735-1978.
Research proposal and final paper tracing Sides's connection with the Lefler
and Alexander families of Mecklenburg County and late 19th and early 20th
century descendants of the family in Cabarrus County. Includes transcripts
and tapes* of Sides's interviews with her relatives, two letters (1918)
written by her family members, and two photographs of family members, one
of which shows part of the Alexander family. |
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MISCELLANY |
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| This series contains items given to Carver after
The Charlotte Observer advertised that her students were looking for original
material. The first item, given by Dr. Louise Murdy of Winthrop College,
is a 6-page photocopy of a letter (11-28-40) from Martha Mai Davidson Ramsey
to her youngest sister Ona Davidson Gray, telling of their family life on
a west Tennessee farm. Included with the letter is a brief sketch of the
Davidson family. The other donation is a 7-page ballad (with a photocopy)
by an unidentified author (6-11-02) and entitled "The Ride of Jennie
McNeal." |
