Stephen M Monroe

Heritage and Hate

Old South Rhetoric at Southern Universities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents the US South as a pulsating rhetorical landscape, a place where words and symbols rooted in a deeply problematic past litter the ground and contaminate the soil. This provocative text focuses on predominantly white southern universities where Old South rhetoric still reverberates.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Alabama Press
• First Edition, First edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 160mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780817320935
• ISBN-10: 0817320938
• Artikelnr.: 61261424

Autorenporträt

Stephen M. Monroe is chair and assistant professor in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi.

Inhaltsangabe

1. List of Figures
2. Preface
3. Acknowledgments
4. Introduction
5. Chapter 1. "A Name So Beautiful and Appropriate": "Ole Miss" and the
Ideology of Self-Identification from 1897 to 1971
6. Chapter 2. What Is a Hotty Toddy? From School Cheer to Racist Jeer
7. Chapter 3. Minimization at Mizzou: Confederate Rhetoric and Interpretative
Difference
8. Chapter 4. Obfuscation at the University of Mississippi
9. Chapter 5. Football, Flags, and Rhetorical Fury
10. Chapter 6. Origins and Repercussions: The Continuum of Confederate Rhetoric
11. Chapter 7. Reasons for Hope? Scholars of Language and a New South Rhetoric
12. Epilogue
13. Postscript
14. Notes
15. Bibliography
16. Index