The Tacky South Hardback
by Scott Romine, Charles Reagan Wilson
Edited by Katharine A. Burnett, Monica Carol Miller
Part of the Southern Literary Studies series
Hardback
Description
As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War.
The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and the television series Murder, She Wrote to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton.
Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, The Tacky South explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:277 pages, 6 illustrations
- Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2022
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- ISBN:9780807177341
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:277 pages, 6 illustrations
- Publisher:Louisiana State University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780807177341
