Dreaming of Dixie. How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture
✍ Scribed by Karen L. Cox
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Year
- 2010;2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 684 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 146960986X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even bolls of cotton. In Dreaming of Dixie , Karen Cox shows that the chief purveyors of nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity by marketing the South as a region still dedicated to America's pastoral traditions. In addition, Cox examines how southerners themselves embraced the imaginary romance of the region's past.
|From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even...