Away down South a history of Southern identity
"From the seventeenth-century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate flag, here is a portrait of southern identity, served in an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In this insightful book, written wit...
| Main Author: | Cobb, James C. 1947- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Cavalier and Yankee : the origins of Southern "otherness"
- The South becomes a cause
- The New South and the old cause
- The Southern Renaissance and the revolt against the New South creed
- Southern writers and "the impossible load of the past"
- The mind of the South
- The South of guilt and shame
- No North, no South? the crisis of Southern white identity
- Successful, optimistic, prosperous, and bland : telling about the No South
- Blackness and Southernness : African Americans look south toward home
- Divided by a common past : history and identity in the contemporary South
- The South and the politics of identity.