Composing, Remembering, and Performing Identity at Charles Towne Landing, 1966 through 1971: Rhetorical Identification as Defensive and Antagonistic Strategies (original) (raw)

I dedicate this work to my husband, Todd Garriott. You are the reason I rediscovered Charles Towne Landing. Thank you, Todd, for your love and support through these five years of writing and research while we discovered our own love. And to my parents, the Reverend V. Creighton Evans, Junior, and Nina Evans. I never would have pursued a PhD in English if you hadn't provided me with an endless supply of novels, blank notebooks, and pens, and if you hadn't encouraged me to be weird. And to my grandmothers, Joan Welsh Evans, and the late Frances Grimball Ash. Together and separately, they taught me the best aspects of Southern culture. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thank you to all the staff at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History for pulling boxes of documents, for copying hundreds of pages of letters, memos, and reports, and for always being cheerful when I submitted yet another request for more boxes and more copies.