New Directions in Southern Studies – serie
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18 produkter
Wounds of Returning
Race, Memory, and Property on the Postslavery Plantation
Häftad, 2007
474 kr
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From Storyville brothels and narratives of turn-of-the-century New Orleans to plantation tours, Bette Davis films, Elvis memorials, Willa Cather's fiction, and the annual prison rodeo held at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Jessica Adams considers spatial and ideological evolutions of …
Ordering the Facade
Photography and Contemporary Southern Women's Writing
Häftad, 2007
448 kr
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Proposing a new way to map intersections of photography and American literature, Katherine Henninger demonstrates the importance of pinpointing specific cultural and subcultural history. ""Ordering the Facade"" traces the visual and literary cultures of southern womanhood that have ordered the …
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Globalization in the American South
Häftad, 2009
460 kr
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This is a biography of the city of Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, Stax Records, and FedEx. Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of …
Lynching and Spectacle
Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
Häftad, 2011
460 kr
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This title presents public reinforcement of white supremacy. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America often exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In ""Lynching and Spectacle"", Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and …
Indicted South
Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness
Häftad, 2014
474 kr
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By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward. In this interdisciplinary study, Angie Maxwell examines and connects three key …
This Ain't Chicago
Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South
Häftad, 2014
474 kr
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When Zandria Robinson returned home to interview African Americans in Memphis, she was often greeted with some version of the caution ""I hope you know this ain't Chicago."" In this important new work, Robinson critiques ideas of black identity constructed through a northern lens and situates …
Southscapes
Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature
Häftad, 2014
611 kr
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In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies. Basing her analysis on texts by Ernest …
Calypso Magnolia
The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature
Häftad, 2016
578 kr
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In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by …
Baptized in PCBs
Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
Häftad, 2016
446 kr
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In the mid-1990s, residents of Anniston, Alabama, began a legal fight against the agrochemical company Monsanto over the dumping of PCBs in the city's historically African American and white working-class west side. Simultaneously, Anniston environmentalists sought to safely eliminate chemical …
Calypso Magnolia
The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature
Inbunden, 2016
1474 kr
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In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by …
Beyond the Crossroads
The Devil and the Blues Tradition
Av Adam Gussow
Inbunden, 2017
1126 kr
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The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake (""the devil's music""), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for …
Beyond the Crossroads
The Devil and the Blues Tradition
Av Adam Gussow
Häftad, 2017
446 kr
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The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake (""the devil's music""), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for …
Hard, Hard Religion
Interracial Faith in the Poor South
Av John Hayes
Inbunden, 2017
1197 kr
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In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor - both white and black - to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the …
Hard, Hard Religion
Interracial Faith in the Poor South
Av John Hayes
Häftad, 2017
389 kr
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In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor - both white and black - to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the …
Hurtin' Words
Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South
Av Ted Ownby
Inbunden, 2018
1233 kr
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When Tammy Wynette sang ""D-I-V-O-R-C-E,"" she famously said she ""spelled out the hurtin' words"" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the …
Hurtin' Words
Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South
Av Ted Ownby
Häftad, 2018
401 kr
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When Tammy Wynette sang ""D-I-V-O-R-C-E,"" she famously said she ""spelled out the hurtin' words"" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the …
Redefining the Immigrant South
Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War
Inbunden, 2020
1233 kr
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In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with the recently partitioned states of India and Pakistan. U.S. operations in these two countries became the second- and fourth-largest in the world, …
Redefining the Immigrant South
Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston During the Cold War
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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In the early years of the Cold War, the United States mounted expansive public diplomacy programs in the Global South, including initiatives with the recently partitioned states of India and Pakistan. U.S. operations in these two countries became the second- and fourth-largest in the world, …
