Creating and Consuming the American South - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813060699 ISBN 13: 9780813060699

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2015

Synopsis

Stories of decline, endurance, invasion, and resistance have shaped southern identity. Whether they originate in chambers of commerce, neo-Confederate websites, jazz songs, or forces outside the region, the narratives and images that give shape to “the South” have real social, political, and economic ramifications.

Featuring interdisciplinary contributions from distinguished scholars, this volume explores how such narratives and images have been produced and how they have shaped perceptions about the South and southernness that register at various local, regional, national, and transnational scales. By approaching the subject through a variety of lenses, including American and queer studies, performance art, and music, these essays challenge and expand on the established understanding of how, when, where, and why ideas of the South have been developed and disseminated.

About this title

About the Author

Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Brian Ward is professor in American studies at Northumbria University, UK.

William A. Link is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida, USA. They are coeditors of Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South and The American South and the Atlantic World.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813060699
• ISBN 13: 9780813060699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Bone Martyn, Ward Brian, Link William A.