Reconstructing Dixie : Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South PDF
by McPherson Tara McPherson
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Illuminating crucial connections between understandings of race, gender, and place on the one hand and narrative and images on the other, McPherson reads a number of representations of the South produced from the 1930s to the present. These are drawn from fiction, film, television, southern studies scholarship, popular journalism, music, tourist sites, the internet, and autobiography. She examines modes of affect or ways of "feeling southern" to reveal how these feelings, along with the narratives and images she discusses, sanction particular racial logics. A wide-ranging cultural studies critique, Reconstructing Dixie calls for vibrant new ways of thinking about the South and for a revamped and reinvigorated southern studies.
Reconstructing Dixie will appeal to scholars in American, southern, and cultural studies, and to those in African American, media, and women's studies.
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- Pages:332 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2003
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- ISBN:9780822384625
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:332 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:31/03/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822384625