Southern Studies

Southern Studies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Southern Studies book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Keywords for Southern Studies

Scott Romine,Jennifer Rae Greeson
Keywords for Southern Studies Book PDF

Author : Scott Romine,Jennifer Rae Greeson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820340616

Get Book

Keywords for Southern Studies by Scott Romine,Jennifer Rae Greeson Pdf

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general. The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refutes standard binary thinking—First World/Third World, self/other, for instance—that postcolonial studies revealed as a flawed rhetorical structure for analyzing empire. Instead, Keywords promotes a holistic way of thinking that begins with southern studies but extends beyond.

Keywords for Southern Studies

Scott Romine,Jennifer Rae Greeson
Keywords for Southern Studies Book PDF

Author : Scott Romine,Jennifer Rae Greeson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820349619

Get Book

Keywords for Southern Studies by Scott Romine,Jennifer Rae Greeson Pdf

"In Keywords for Southern Studies, the editors have compiled an eclectic collection of essays which address the fluidity and ever-changing nature of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. This book is termed 'critical' because the essays in it are pertinent to modern life beyond the world of 'southern studies.' The non-binary, non-traditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refuses the binary thinking -- First World/Third World, self/other -- that postcolonial studies has taught us is the worst rhetorical structure of empire. Keywords promotes a holistic way of thinking that starts with southern studies but extends even further"--

Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies

Zackary Vernon
Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies Book PDF

Author : Zackary Vernon
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807171134

Get Book

Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies by Zackary Vernon Pdf

As the planet faces ever-worsening disruptions to global ecosystems—carbon and chemical emissions, depletions of the ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, air toxification, and worsening floods and droughts—scholars across academia must examine the cultural effects of this increasingly postnatural world. That task proves especially vital for southern studies, given how often the U.S. South serves as a site for large-scale damming initiatives like the TVA, disasters on the scale of Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon spill, and the extraction of coal, oil, and natural gas. Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies is the first book-length collection of scholarship that applies interdisciplinary environmental humanities research to cultural analyses of the U.S. South. Sixteen essays examine novels, nature writing, films, television, and music that address a broad range of ecological topics related to the region, including climate change, manmade and natural environments, the petroleum industry, food cultures, waterways, natural and human-induced disasters, waste management, and the Anthropocene. Edited by Zackary Vernon, this volume demonstrates how the greening of southern studies, in tandem with the southernization of environmental studies, can catalyze alternative ways of understanding the connections between regional and global cultures and landscapes. By addressing ecological issues central to life throughout the South, Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies considers the confluence between region and environment, while also illustrating the growing need to see environmental issues as matters of social justice.

Southern Literary Studies

Charles Alphonso Smith
Southern Literary Studies Book PDF

Author : Charles Alphonso Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:$B113557

Get Book

Southern Literary Studies by Charles Alphonso Smith Pdf

In this collection, a southerner of high scholarly distinction and wide personal influence, discourses wisely and charmingly on the Americanism of American literature, on Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Chandler Harris, Thomas Jefferson, O. Henry, Matthew Fontaine Maury, and on various aspects of literature in the South. A bibliography of the writings of C. Alphonso Smith is included. Originally published in 1927. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Southscapes

Thadious M. Davis
Southscapes Book PDF

Author : Thadious M. Davis
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807835210

Get Book

Southscapes by Thadious M. Davis Pdf

In this innovative approach to southern literary cultures, Thadious Davis analyzes how black southern writers use their spatial location to articulate the vexed connections between society and environment, particularly under segregation and its legacies.<

Red States

Gina Caison
Red States Book PDF

Author : Gina Caison
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820353357

Get Book

Red States by Gina Caison Pdf

Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.S. South. Gina Caison argues that popular misconceptions of Native American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing how non-Native audiences in the region came to imagine indigeneity through the presentation of specious histories presented in regional literary texts, and she examines how Indigenous people work against these narratives to maintain sovereign land claims in their home spaces through their own literary and cultural productions. As Caison demonstrates, these conversations in the U.S. South have consequences for how present-day conservative political discourses resonate across the United States. Assembling a newly constituted archive that includes regional theatrical and musical performances, pre-Civil War literatures, and contemporary novels, Caison illuminates the U.S. South's continued investment in settler colonialism and the continued Indigenous resistance to this paradigm. Ultimately, she concludes that the region is indeed made up of red states, but perhaps not in the way readers initially imagine.

Minding the South

John Shelton Reed
Minding the South Book PDF

Author : John Shelton Reed
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826264534

Get Book

Minding the South by John Shelton Reed Pdf

You're in the American South now, a proud region with a distinctive history and culture. A place that echoes with names like Thomas Jefferson and Robert E. Lee, Scarlett O'Hara and Uncle Remus, Martin Luther King and William Faulkner, Billy Graham, Mahalia Jackson, Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley. Home of the country blues and country music, bluegrass and Dixieland jazz, gospel music and rock and roll. Where menus offer both down-home biscuits and gravy and uptown shrimp and grits. Where churches preach against "cigarettes, whiskey, and wild, wild women" (all Southern products) and where American football is a religion. For more than thirty years John Shelton Reed has been "minding" the South--watching over it, providing commentary upon it. He is the author or editor of thirteen books about the South, and despite his disclaimer regarding formal study of Southern history, Reed has read widely and in depth about the South. His primary focus is upon Southerners' present-day culture and consciousness, but he knows that one must approach the South historically in order to understand the place and its people. Why is the South so different from the rest of the country? Rupert Vance, Reed's predecessor in sociology at Chapel Hill, once observed that the very existence of the South is a triumph of history over geography and economics. The South has resisted being assimilated by the larger United States and has kept a personality that is distinctly its own.That is why Reed celebrates the South. His essays cover everything from great thinkers about the South--Eugene D. Genovese, C. Vann Woodward, M. E. Bradford--to the uniqueness of a region that was once a hotbed of racism, but has recently attracted hundreds of thousands of blacks transplanted from the North. There are even a few chapters about Southerners who have devoted their talents to different subjects altogether, from politics or soft drinks to rock and roll or the design of silver jewelry. Reed writes with wit and Southern charm, never afraid to speak his mind, even when it comes to taking his beloved South to task. While readers may not share all his opinions, most will agree that John Shelton Reed is one of the best "South watchers" there is.

Flashes of a Southern Spirit

Charles Reagan Wilson
Flashes of a Southern Spirit Book PDF

Author : Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820338309

Get Book

Flashes of a Southern Spirit by Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

Flashes of a Southern Spirit explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness.

Beyond the Crossroads

Adam Gussow
Beyond the Crossroads Book PDF

Author : Adam Gussow
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469633671

Get Book

Beyond the Crossroads by Adam Gussow Pdf

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesake ("the devil's music"), but a shadowy presence who haunts an imagined Mississippi crossroads where, it is claimed, Delta bluesman Robert Johnson traded away his soul in exchange for extraordinary prowess on the guitar. Yet, as scholar and musician Adam Gussow argues, there is much more to the story of the devil and the blues than these cliched understandings. In this groundbreaking study, Gussow takes the full measure of the devil's presence. Working from original transcriptions of more than 125 recordings released during the past ninety years, Gussow explores the varied uses to which black southern blues people have put this trouble-sowing, love-wrecking, but also empowering figure. The book culminates with a bold reinterpretation of Johnson's music and a provocative investigation of the way in which the citizens of Clarksdale, Mississippi, managed to rebrand a commercial hub as "the crossroads" in 1999, claiming Johnson and the devil as their own.

New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, V. 17

Clarence L. Mohr,Charles Wilson
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture V 17 Book PDF

Author : Clarence L. Mohr,Charles Wilson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780807834916

Get Book

New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, V. 17 by Clarence L. Mohr,Charles Wilson Pdf

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

The North of the South

Barbara Ladd
The North of the South Book PDF

Author : Barbara Ladd
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820362533

Get Book

The North of the South by Barbara Ladd Pdf

Over the past generation the Deep South has become the primary focus, and the plantation the predominant site, in southern literary studies. These developments followed academic interest first in postcolonial studies and more recently in globalization studies and conceptions of the Global South. With The North of the South Barbara Ladd turns her attention to the Upper South, exploring the fluidity of regional boundaries in this part of the world. In so doing she argues for greater attention to the impact of its distinctive ecosystems on its literature and points out the complex ways the Upper South’s cultural and natural histories are foundational for our national imaginary. Surprisingly, it is Edgar Allan Poe who anchors this study. No longer American literary nationalism’s most famous misfit, here he is shown to be remarkably attentive to both the natural and the nationalizing world around him, to have engaged deeply and critically with the environmental and the nationalist vision of Thomas Jefferson. Poe left a legacy of national melancholy around questions of American origins and possible futures discernible in the Souths of Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Cormac McCarthy, and Toni Morrison. In her examination of these cultural aspects of the Upper South, Ladd plumbs the depths of Poe’s influence on southern literary studies.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Martin V. Melosi
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Book PDF

Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616605

Get Book

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

From semitropical coastal areas to high mountain terrain, from swampy lowlands to modern cities, the environment holds a fundamental importance in shaping the character of the American South. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys the dynamic environmental forces that have shaped human culture in the region--and the ways humans have shaped their environment. Articles examine how the South's ecology, physiography, and climate have influenced southerners--not only as a daily fact of life but also as a metaphor for understanding culture and identity. This volume includes ninety-eight essays that explore--both broadly and specifically--elements of the southern environment. Thematic overviews address subjects such as plants, animals, energy use and development, and natural disasters. Shorter topical entries feature familiar species such as the alligator, the ivory-billed woodpecker, kudzu, and the mockingbird. Also covered are important individuals in southern environmental history and prominent places in the landscape, such as the South's national parks and seashores. New articles cover contemporary issues in land use and conservation, environmental protection, and the current status of the flora and fauna widely associated with the South.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Thomas C. Holt,Laurie Beth Green,Charles Reagan Wilson
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Book PDF

Author : Thomas C. Holt,Laurie Beth Green,Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469607245

Get Book

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Thomas C. Holt,Laurie Beth Green,Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South. However, this concluding volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture challenges previous understandings, revealing the region's rich, ever-expanding diversity and providing new explorations of race relations. In 36 thematic and 29 topical essays, contributors examine such subjects as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Japanese American incarceration in the South, relations between African Americans and Native Americans, Chinese men adopting Mexican identities, Latino religious practices, and Vietnamese life in the region. Together the essays paint a nuanced portrait of how concepts of race in the South have influenced its history, art, politics, and culture beyond the familiar binary of black and white.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Larry J. Griffin,Peggy G. Hargis,Charles Reagan Wilson
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Book PDF

Author : Larry J. Griffin,Peggy G. Hargis,Charles Reagan Wilson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780807882542

Get Book

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Larry J. Griffin,Peggy G. Hargis,Charles Reagan Wilson Pdf

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a timely, authoritative, and interdisciplinary exploration of issues related to social class in the South from the colonial era to the present. With introductory essays by J. Wayne Flynt and by editors Larry J. Griffin and Peggy G. Hargis, the volume is a comprehensive, stand-alone reference to this complex subject, which underpins the history of the region and shapes its future. In 58 thematic essays and 103 topical entries, the contributors explore the effects of class on all aspects of life in the South--its role in Indian removal, the Civil War, the New Deal, and the civil rights movement, for example, and how it has been manifested in religion, sports, country and gospel music, and matters of gender. Artisans and the working class, indentured workers and steelworkers, the Freedmen's Bureau and the Knights of Labor are all examined. This volume provides a full investigation of social class in the region and situates class concerns at the center of our understanding of Southern culture.

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

Nancy Bercaw,Ted Ownby
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Book PDF

Author : Nancy Bercaw,Ted Ownby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469616728

Get Book

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture by Nancy Bercaw,Ted Ownby Pdf

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender. The wide range of entries explores how people have experienced, understood, and used concepts of womanhood and manhood in all sorts of obvious and subtle ways. The volume features 113 articles, 65 of which are entirely new for this edition. Thematic articles address subjects such as sexuality, respectability, and paternalism and investigate the role of gender in broader subjects, including the civil rights movement, country music, and sports. Topical entries highlight individuals such as Oprah Winfrey, the Grimke sisters, and Dale Earnhardt, as well as historical events such as the capture of Jefferson Davis in a woman's dress, the Supreme Court's decision in Loving v. Virginia, and the Memphis sanitation workers' strike, with its slogan, "I AM A MAN." Bringing together scholarship on gender and the body, sexuality, labor, race, and politics, this volume offers new ways to view big questions in southern history and culture.