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Contents Preface xi Acknowledgments xv A James Agee Chronology xvii Why Agee Matters 1 Dwight Garner Agee on Books 11 Paul Ashdown James Agee and the Culture of Repudiation 37 Jeffrey J. Folks Racial Violence, Receding Bodies: James Agee’s Anatomy of Guilt 53 James A. Crank A Continuous Center: Centripetal and Centrifugal Tendencies in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 75 Andrew Crooke A Blind Work of Nature: The Ethics of Representing Beauty in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men 93 Jesse Graves James Agee’s A Death in the Family: Personal Identity and Conflict in an Emerging Appalachia 107 Michael A. Lofaro Maximum Simple: The Restored Text of A Death in the Family 143 Philip Stogdon Writing The African Queen: Variations on a Classic Film 167 Jeffrey Couchman The Makers of In the Street and The Quiet One 201 John Wranovics James Agee’s Experimentally Traditional Mr. Lincoln 229 Jeffrey Couchman Agee and the Filipino Epic Genghis Khan: A Personal Journey 253 John Wranovics Seeing Agee in Lincoln: A Short Story 265 David Madden Contributors 279 Index 283 ...

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