| Creating and Consuming the American South Contributor(s): Bone, Martyn (Editor), Ward, Brian (Editor), Link, William a. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813064457 ISBN-13: 9780813064451 Publisher: University Press of Florida OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - Social Science | Sociology - General - History | African American |
| Dewey: 975 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6" W x 9" (1.15 lbs) 354 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Topical - Black History - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores how an eclectic selection of narratives and images of the American South have been created and consumed. The thirteen essays move beyond both traditional accounts of southern identity as either declining or enduring, and more recent postmodernist accounts of the South as imagined or invented. Instead, the contributors emphasize how narratives and images of "the South" have real social, political, and economic ramifications, and that they register at various local, regional, national, and transnational scales. Featuring distinguished scholars writing from a wide range of multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives--history, literary studies, performance studies, popular music, and queer studies--the volume both challenges and expands on established understandings of how, when, where, and why ideas of the South have been developed and disseminated. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bone, Martyn: - Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. Brian Ward is professor in American studies at Northumbria University.Ward, Brian: - Brian Ward is professor in American studies at Northumbria University. |