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North Carolina literature

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The literature of North Carolina, USA, includes fiction, poetry, and varieties of nonfiction. Representative authors include playwright Paul Green, short-story writer O. Henry, and novelist Thomas Wolfe.{{citation |title=North Carolina Literature |author=Sally Buckner |work=Tar Heel Junior Historian |date=Fall 2009 |publisher=Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, North Carolina Museum of History |url=http://www.ncpedia.org/culture/literature/overview |via=NCpedia}}

History

A printing press began operating in New Bern, at the time North Carolina's capital, in 1749.{{Citation |publisher=Southworth-Anthoensen Press |location=Portland, Maine |title=The Colonial Printer |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/colonialprinter00wrot#page/15/mode/1up |via=Internet Archive |author=Lawrence C. Wroth |date=1938 |chapter=Diffusion of Printing}} (Fulltext)

"The first book published by a black in the South was The Hope of Liberty (1829), which contained poems decrying the slaves' condition, by George Moses Horton of North Carolina."{{cite book |editor1=Charles Reagan Wilson |editor2=William Ferris |title=Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |isbn=0807818232 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |year=1989 |via=Documenting the American South |chapter-url=http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/antebellum.html |chapter=Antebellum Era |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofso00dia_teb }} Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897) "details events of slave life in Edenton" in her 1861 autobiographical Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.{{cite book |editor=Emory Elliott |title=Columbia History of the American Novel |url=https://archive.org/details/columbiahistoryo00elli|url-access=registration |year=1991 |publisher=Columbia University Press |isbn=978-0-231-07360-8 }}

Organizations

The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association began in 1900 in Raleigh,{{cite web |url=https://www.ncdcr.gov/about/history/lit-and-hist/history-mission |title=History and Mission |work=North Carolina Literary and Historical Association |publisher=North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources |location=Raleigh |access-date= March 11, 2017 }} and the North Carolina Poetry Society in 1932 in Charlotte.{{cite web |url=http://www.ncpoetrysociety.org/history/ |title=History |publisher=North Carolina Poetry Society |access-date= March 11, 2017 }} The North Carolina Writers' Network formed in 1985,{{cite web |url=http://www.ncwriters.org/about-us/2-history-of-the-network |title=About Us: History |publisher= North Carolina Writers' Network |access-date= March 11, 2017 }} and the Winston-Salem Writers group in 2005.{{cite web |url=https://www.wswriters.org/mission-and-vision |title=Who We Are |publisher=Winston-Salem Writers |access-date= March 11, 2017 }}

=North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame=

The "North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame" (est.1996) resides in the James Boyd House in the town of Southern Pines. Inductees:{{cite web |url=http://www.nclhof.org/about-the-nclhof/ |title=About the NCLHOF |publisher=North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame |access-date= March 11, 2017 }}{{cite web |title=Inductees |url=http://www.nclhof.org/inductees/ |access-date=20 August 2017}}

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Awards and events

In 1948 Arthur Talmage Abernethy became the first North Carolina Poet Laureate.{{cite web |url=http://www.ncarts.org/resources/north-carolina-poet-laureate/past-poet-laureates |title= Past Poet Laureates |work=North Carolina Poet Laureate |publisher=North Carolina Arts Council |location= Raleigh |access-date= March 11, 2017 }}

See also

References

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Bibliography

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  • {{cite book|title=Library of Southern Literature |editor= Lucian Lamar Knight |publisher= Martin and Hoyt Company |location=Atlanta |year= 1913

|chapter= Fifty Reading Courses: North Carolina

|volume=16 |page=204+

|hdl= 2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=512 |chapter-url= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175034925258?urlappend=%3Bseq=512

|via=HathiTrust

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  • {{citation |title=Biennial Report of the State Librarian of North Carolina |year=1919

|chapter= Bibliography of North Carolina |pages=23–80

|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BVBFAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA23

|last1=Library

|first1=North Carolina State

}}. (Works by North Carolinans or related to the state)

  • {{cite book

|author= Elsie Dershem |title= Outline of American State Literature |publisher=World Company |location= Lawrence, Kansas |year= 1921

|chapter= North Carolina

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/outlineofamerica001157mbp#page/n131/mode/2up |via= Internet Archive

}}

  • {{cite book

|author=Federal Writers’ Project |title= North Carolina: a Guide to the Old North State |series=American Guide Series |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |location= Chapel Hill

|year= 1939

|chapter= The Arts: Literature |pages= 107–111

|chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/northcarolinagui00fede#page/107/mode/1up

}}

  • {{cite book|author=G. Thomas Tanselle |year=1971 |title=Guide to the Study of United States Imprints |url=https://archive.org/details/guidetostudyofun0002tans |url-access=registration |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-36761-6}} (Includes information about North Carolina literature)
  • {{cite book |editor1=Joseph M. Flora |editor2=Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan |title=Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, Places, People, Movements, and Motifs |publisher=Louisiana State University Press |isbn=978-0-8071-2692-9 |year=2001 |chapter=Literature of North Carolina |page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780807126929/page/557 557] |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780807126929}}
  • {{cite book|editor=William L. Andrews |title=North Carolina Roots of African American Literature: An Anthology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ilJJWwqcOPMC |year=2006 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-2994-3}}. (Includes examples of work by Charles W. Chesnutt, Anna J. Cooper, George Moses Horton, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Moses Roper, David Walker)
  • {{citation |title= North Carolina Literature |author= Sally Buckner |work=Tar Heel Junior Historian |date= Fall 2009 |publisher= Tar Heel Junior Historian Association, North Carolina Museum of History |url=http://www.ncpedia.org/culture/literature/overview |via=NCpedia}}
  • {{cite book|author1=Anne Bridges|author2=Russell Clement|author3=Ken Wise|title=Terra Incognita: an Annotated Bibliography of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1544-1934 |publisher=University of Tennessee Press |location=Knoxville, TN |isbn=978-1-62190-014-6 |date=2014 |chapter=Literature of the Great Smoky Mountains |pages=223–262 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DkPbAwAAQBAJ}}

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External links

  • {{cite web |url=http://library.uncg.edu/dp/nclitmap/ |title= North Carolina Literary Map |publisher= University of North Carolina at Greensboro |quote= Connecting the lives and creative work of authors to real (and imaginary) geographic locations }}
  • {{cite web |url= http://dmoztools.net/Regional/North_America/United_States/North_Carolina/Arts_and_Entertainment/Literature/ |work=DMOZ |publisher=AOL |title= North Carolina: Arts and Entertainment: Literature }} (Directory ceased in 2017)
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.ala.org/united/products_services/literarylandmarks/landmarksbystate/landmarksbystate |title=Literary Landmarks by State: North Carolina |publisher= American Library Association |location=Chicago |author= United for Libraries |date=27 February 2009 }}

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