Contemporary Southern Identity
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Contemporary Southern Identity
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Author : Rebecca Bridges Wats
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2013-08-28
Contemporary Southern Identity written by Rebecca Bridges Wats and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-28 with History categories.
In Contemporary Southern Identity, Rebecca Bridges Watts explores the implications of four public controversies about southern identity—debates about the Confederate flag in South Carolina, the gender integration of the Virginia Military Institute, the display of public art in Richmond, and Trent Lott's controversial comments regarding Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist presidential bid. While such debates may serve as evidence of the South's “battle over the past,” they can alternatively be seen as harbingers of a changing South. These controversies highlight the diversity of voices in the conversation of what it means to be a southerner. The participants in these conflicts may disagree about what southern identity should be, but they all agree that such discussions are a crucial part of being southern. Recent debates as to the place of Old South symbols and institutions in the South of the new millennium are evidence of a changing order. But a changing South is no less distinctive. If southerners can find unity and distinctiveness in their identification, they may even be able to serve as a model for the increasingly divided United States. The very debates portrayed in the mass media as evidence of an “unfinished Civil War” can instead be interpreted as proof that the South has progressed and is having a common dialogue as to what its diverse members want it to be.
Redefining Southern Culture
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Author : James Charles Cobb
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1999
Redefining Southern Culture written by James Charles Cobb and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Cobb, "surveys the remarkable story of southern identity and its persistence in the face of sweeping changes in the South's economy, society and political structure."--dust jacket.
A Place For The Lost Ron Rash And Contemporary Southern Identity
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
A Place For The Lost Ron Rash And Contemporary Southern Identity written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
In his seminal essay "The Search for Southern Identity," C. Vann Woodward asserts, "The time is coming, if indeed it has not already arrived, when the Southerner will begin to ask himself whether there is really any longer very much point in calling himself a Southerner. Or if he does, he might well wonder occasionally whether it is worthwhile insisting on the point" (3). Although Woodward first published this essay in 1958, his assertions may be even more pertinent today, given the effect that an increasingly homogeneous national culture has had on American regionalism. Over the past half century, the persistence of questions such as those Woodward raises has manifested itself in an enormous amount of writing about the idea of a distinctively Southern identity. In this essay, I will examine the literature of Ron Rash, a contemporary writer from western North Carolina, and I will explain Rash's complex relationship with Southern identity by considering, at least tangentially, his three poetry collections as well as his three novels. Ultimately, after examining the history of Southern identity, Rash's use of Southern identity and culture in his fiction and poetry, the ways in which Rash's characters exploit Southern identity, and the version of Southern identity that Rash perpetuates in his own life, I will show that Rash is justifiable in his employment and portrayal of Southern identity. Rather than consciously commodifying Southern identity and culture as a marketing tool to sell his work to a specific audience, Rash artfully records a disappearing culture to which he has strong personal ties.
A Place For The Lost
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Author : Zackary Dwayne Vernon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
A Place For The Lost written by Zackary Dwayne Vernon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
Keywords: ron rash, souther literature, southern culture, southern identity.
Away Down South
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Author : James Charles Cobb
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2005
Away Down South written by James Charles Cobb and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
In this unique synthesis of political, cultural, and intellectual history, James C. Cobb spans more than two centuries in tracing the origins and development of the South as not just an exception to the national rule, but as an internal 'other' against which American nationhood was defined.
Ordering The Facade
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Author : Katherine Henninger
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2007
Ordering The Facade written by Katherine Henninger and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Proposing a new way to map intersections of photography and American literature, Katherine Henninger demonstrates the importance of pinpointing specific cultural and subcultural history. "Ordering the Facade" traces the visual and literary cultures of sou
Ripping The Veil
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Author : Patricia G. Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Ripping The Veil written by Patricia G. Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with African Americans categories.
My study investigates processed through which African Americans articulate an identification with the South through the reconstruction of cultural memories of slavery and the Civil War. The objective of the dissertation is to examine the ways in which multiple, contradictory, decentered, and fragmented subjectivities are produced and expressed through a variety of vernacular media forms. Using a mixture of interviews, historical research, and critical textual analysis, I analyze history museums foregrounding the black experience of slavery, African American Civil War reenactments, and a digital media Memory Book site. These forms enable vernacular media producers to construct narratives of the period highlighting black historical agency, connecting the history of slavery to its contemporary legacy, and recovering the emancipationist vision of the war. In so doing, they critique and revise dominant historical narratives of slavery and the Civil War that construct 19th century memory, as well as contemporary southern identity, as white.
Leaving The South
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Author : Mary Weaks-Baxter
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2018-12-17
Leaving The South written by Mary Weaks-Baxter and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with History categories.
Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Because the movements of southerners--and people in general--are controlled not only by physical boundaries marked on a map but also by narratives that define movement, narrative is central in building and sustaining borders and in breaking them down. In Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity, author Mary Weaks-Baxter analyzes narratives by and about those who left the South and how those narratives have remade what it means to be southern. Drawing from a broad range of narratives, including literature, newspaper articles, art, and music, Weaks-Baxter outlines how these displacement narratives challenged concepts of southern nationhood and redefined southern identity. Close attention is paid to how depictions of the South, particularly in the media and popular culture, prompted southerners to leave the region and changed perceptions of southerners to outsiders as well as how southerners saw themselves. Through an examination of narrative, Weaks-Baxter reveals the profound effect gender, race, and class have on the nature of the migrant's journey, the adjustment of the migrant, and the ultimate decision of the migrant either to stay put or return home, and connects the history of border crossings to the issues being considered in today's national landscape.
Stories For Survival
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Author : Heather D. Mead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Stories For Survival written by Heather D. Mead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
The Resilience Of Southern Identity
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Author : Christopher A. Cooper
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-02-01
The Resilience Of Southern Identity written by Christopher A. Cooper and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-01 with History categories.
The American South has experienced remarkable change over the past half century. Black voter registration has increased, the region's politics have shifted from one-party Democratic to the near-domination of the Republican Party, and in-migration has increased its population manyfold. At the same time, many outward signs of regional distinctiveness have faded--chain restaurants have replaced mom-and-pop diners, and the interstate highway system connects the region to the rest of the country. Given all of these changes, many have argued that southern identity is fading. But here, Christopher A. Cooper and H. Gibbs Knotts show how these changes have allowed for new types of southern identity to emerge. For some, identification with the South has become more about a connection to the region's folkways or to place than about policy or ideology. For others, the contemporary South is all of those things at once--a place where many modern-day southerners navigate the region's confusing and omnipresent history. Regardless of how individuals see the South, this study argues that the region's drastic political, racial, and cultural changes have not lessened the importance of southern identity but have played a key role in keeping regional identification relevant in the twenty-first century.