Tara Mcpherson

Reconstructing Dixie

Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Reconstructing Dixie" is theoretically sophisticated in its view of southernness as a discursive construct and a cultural fantasy and in its analysis of the work regional nostalgia performs."--Laura Kipnis, author of "Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 155mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330295
• ISBN-10: 0822330296
• Artikelnr.: 22274740

Autorenporträt

Tara McPherson

Inhaltsangabe

Index 311
Acknowledgments ix
Dixie Then and Now: An Introduction 1
1. Romancing the South: A Tour of Lady’s Legacies, Academic and Otherwise
39
2. “Both Kinds of Arms”: The Civil War in the Present 95
3. Steel Magnolias, Fatal Flowers, and Designing Women: On the Limits of a
Politics of Femininity in the Sun Belt South 149
4. Feeling Southern: Home, Guilt, and the Transformation of White Identity
205
Notes 257
Bibliography 293