Creating and Consuming the American South - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813064457 ISBN 13: 9780813064451

Publisher: University Press of Florida, 2019

Synopsis

This book explores how an eclectic selection of narratives and images of the American South have been created and consumed. The thirteen essays move beyond both traditional accounts of southern identity as either declining or enduring, and more recent postmodernist accounts of the South as imagined or invented. Instead, the contributors emphasize how narratives and images of "the South" have real social, political, and economic ramifications, and that they register at various local, regional, national, and transnational scales. Featuring distinguished scholars writing from a wide range of multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives―history, literary studies, performance studies, popular music, and queer studies―the volume both challenges and expands on established understandings of how, when, where, and why ideas of the South have been developed and disseminated.

About this title

About the Authors

Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. Brian Ward is professor in American studies at Northumbria University.

Brian Ward is professor in American studies at Northumbria University.

William A. Link is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. 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: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813064457
• ISBN 13: 9780813064451
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354
• Editor: Bone Martyn, Ward Brian, Link William A.