Tara Mcpherson

Reconstructing Dixie

Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

""Reconstructing Dixie" is theoretically sophisticated in its view of southernness as a discursive construct and a cultural fantasy and in its analysis of the work regional nostalgia performs."--Laura Kipnis, author of "Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 154mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330400
• ISBN-10: 0822330407
• Artikelnr.: 21770737

Autorenporträt

Tara McPherson is Associate Professor in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. She is a coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Index 311
Acknowledgments ix
Dixie Then and Now: An Introduction 1
1. Romancing the South: A Tour of Lady’s Legacies, Academic and Otherwise
39
2. “Both Kinds of Arms”: The Civil War in the Present 95
3. Steel Magnolias, Fatal Flowers, and Designing Women: On the Limits of a
Politics of Femininity in the Sun Belt South 149
4. Feeling Southern: Home, Guilt, and the Transformation of White Identity
205
Notes 257
Bibliography 293