Bridging Southern Cultures : An Interdisciplinary Approach.
Title:
Bridging Southern Cultures : An Interdisciplinary Approach.
Author:
Lowe, John.
ISBN:
9780807138687
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (514 pages)
Series:
Southern Literary Studies
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Constructing a Cultural Theory for the South -- Preamble The Study of Region -- Part One: Southern Lives, Southern Cultures -- In Search of a Common Identity The Self and the South in Four Mississippi Autobiographies -- Reclaiming the South -- Part Two: Southern Culture and the Arts -- William Faulkner Art, Alienation, and Alcohol -- The Spunky Little Woman-You Can't Be One If You're White Race, Gender, and a Little Bit of Class in Depression Post Office Murals -- "The Most Natural Expressions of Locality" Ellsworth Woodward and the Newcomb Pottery -- "Working Both Sides of the Fence" African American Quartets Enter the Realm of Popular Culture -- "The Tools of the Master" Southernists in Theoryland -- Part Three: The Burdens and Blessings of Southern History -- On the Issue of Africanisms in American Culture -- Re-creating a Public for the Plantation Reconstruction Myths of the Biracial Southern "Family" -- The South's Midlife Crisis -- How Region Changed Its Meaning and Appalachia Changed Its Standing in the Twentieth Century -- The Burden of Southern Cultur -- Contributors -- Index -- Footnotes -- Chapter 2 Footnotes -- Chapter 3 Footnotes -- Chapter 4 Footnotes -- Chapter 5 Footnotes -- Chapter 6 Footnotes -- Chapter 7 Footnotes -- Chapter 8 Footnotes -- Chapter 9 Footnotes -- Chapter 11 Footnotes -- Chapter 12 Footnotes.
Abstract:
A panorama of past and contemporary southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures by some of the South's leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. Crossing the chasms of demographics, academic disciplines, art forms, and culture, this exciting collection reaches aspects of southern heritage that previous approaches have long obscured.Virtually every dimension of southern identity receives attention here. William Andrews,Thadious Davis, Sue Bridwell Beckham, Richard Megraw, and Joyce Marie Jackson offer engaging reflections on art, age, race, and gender. Bertram Wyatt-Brown delivers a startling reading of Faulkner, revealing the tangled history of southern modernism. Daniel C. Littlefield, Henry Shapiro, and Charles Reagan Wilson provide important assessments of Africanisms in southern culture, Appalachian studies, and the blessing and burden of southern culture. John Shelton Reed probes the humorous and awkward aspects of the South's midlife crisis. John Lowe shows how the myth of the biracialsouthern family complicated plantation-school narratives for both white and black writers.Showcasing the thought of preeminent southern intellectuals, Bridging Southern Cultures is a timely assessment of the state of contemporary southern studies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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