Bridging Southern cultures: an interdisciplinary approach
by Lowe, John
A panorama of past and contemporary southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures by some of the SouthÆs leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. Crossing the chasms of demographics, academic disciplines, art forms, and culture, this exciting collection reaches aspects of southern heritage that previous approaches have long obscured. Virtually every dimension of southern identity receives attention here. William Andrews, Thadious Davis…
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- Full title :Bridging Southern cultures : an interdisciplinary approach / edited by John Lowe.
Summary
A panorama of past and contemporary southern society are captured in Bridging Southern Cultures by some of the SouthÆs leading historians, anthropologists, literary critics, musicologists, and folklorists. Crossing the chasms of demographics, academic disciplines, art forms, and culture, this exciting collection reaches aspects of southern heritage that previous approaches have long obscured. Virtually every dimension of southern identity receives attention here. William Andrews, Thadious Davis, Sue Bridwell Beckham, Richard Megraw, and Joyce Marie Jackson offer engaging reflections on art, age.
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- Publication Date:2011.
- Edition:Louisiana paperback edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Louisiana State University Press
- Place of Publication:Baton Rouge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 317 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780807138687, 0807138681
- oclc:ocn711786369
- LC Classification:F209.5
- Dewey Decimal:306/.0975
Table of Contents
Introduction : Constructing a cultural theory for the South / John Lowe -- Preamble : The study of region / William Ferris -- In search of a common identity : the self and the South in four Mississippi autobiographies / William L. Andrews -- Reclaiming the South / Thadious M. Davis -- William Faulkner : art, alienation, and alcohol / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- The spunky little woman -- you can't be one if you're white : race, gender, and a little bit of class in Depression post office murals / Sue Bridwell Beckham -- "The most natural expressions of locality" : Ellsworth Woodward and the Newcomb pottery / Richard Megraw -- "Working with both sides of the fence" : African American quartets enter the realm of popular culture / Joyce Marie Jackson -- "The tools of the master" : Southernists in theoryland / Anne Goodwyn Jones -- On the issue of Africanisms in American culture / Daniel C. Littlefield -- Re-creating a public for the plantation : reconstruction myths of the biracial southern "family" / John Lowe -- The South's midlife crisis / John Shelton Reed -- How region changed its meaning and Appalachia changed its standing in the twentieth century / Henry D. Shapiro -- The burden of …
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