Karen L. Cox

Dreaming of Dixie (eBook, ePUB)

How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807877784
• Artikelnr.: 49968593

Autorenporträt

Karen L. Cox is professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is author of Dixie’s Daughters: The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture.