Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

by Tara McPherson

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The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination-the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture. Narratives of the region often cohere around such tropes as southern hospitality and the southern (white) lady. Tara McPherson argues that these discursive...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822330407

ISBN13:9780822330400

Release Date:March 2003

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.18 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"

Related Subjects

Cultural Discrimination & Racism Minority Studies Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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