Myth, manners, and memory
by Abadie, Ann J. Thomas, James G.,, Jr Wilson, Charles Reagan
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.
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- Full title :Myth, manners, and memory / Charles Reagan Wilson, volume editor.
Summary
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.
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- Publication Date:©2006
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The University of North Carolina Press
- Place of Publication:Chapel Hill
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006
Notes
"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
One of a series of volumes that build upon the original 24 subject categories used in the Encyclopedia of Southern culture, originally published in 1989.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xviii, 297 pages) : : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1469616718, 9781469616711
- oclc:on1171545271
- LC Classification:F209
- Dewey Decimal:920.72
Table of Contents
African influences -- Automobile -- Beauty, cult of -- Benighted south -- Body -- Clocks and time -- Community -- Confederate monuments -- Debutantes -- Etiquette of race relations in the Jim Crow south -- Family -- Fashion -- Fatherhood -- Fighting south -- Fraternal groups -- Fraternal orders, black -- Garden myth -- Gays -- Icons, southern -- Ladies and gentlemen -- Lynching -- Maiden aunt -- Manners -- Memory -- Modernism -- Motherhood -- Museums -- Mythic south -- New south myth -- Northern mythmaking -- Plantation myth -- Postmodernism -- Racial attitudes -- Reconstruction myth -- Regionalism -- Religion and mythology -- Romanticism -- Sexuality -- Stereotypes -- Stoicism -- Tobacco -- Victorianism -- Visiting.
Agrarians, Vanderbilt -- Ango-Saxon south -- Appalachian myth -- Babylon, south's (New Orleans) -- Black collectibles -- Black Confederates, myth of -- Burma Shave signs -- Carter era -- W.J. Cash -- Cavalier myth -- Celtic south -- Chosen people myth -- Christmas -- "City too busy to hate" (Atlanta) -- Civil War reenactments -- Confederate Memorial Day -- "Crackers" -- Elderly -- Evangeline myth -- Family reunions -- Farm Security Administration photography -- Feuds…
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