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The Bad Poor - Race, Class, And The Rise Of Grit Lit

by Mitch Ploskonka

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 The Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary-cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and shaped by reckoning with the legacies of whiteness and regional memory. For those long dismissed as white trash and denied an active voice in their own representation, Grit Lit confronts the parallel concerns of finding a way to describe themselves and the means to communicate it appropriately. Beginning with Harry Crews and progressing chronologically to the presentincluding discussions of key works by Larry Brown, Dorothy Allison, Rick Bragg, and Tom Franklin, among othersPloskonka examines how Grit Lit authors forge self-representations by experimenting with genres and engaging with identity politics. Through the ongoing search for a usable, unshameful identity, Grit Lit enacts a painful but heartening narrative of grappling with the realities of people and place by acknowledging difference. As stories about the gritty or rough South proliferate across media, The Bad Poor relates an important story of literary self-fashioning by analyzing a body of literature that speaks to larger cultural discourses regarding racial identity, social justice, disability, and class divisions.
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Race, Theft, And Ethics - Property Matters In African American Literature

by Lovalerie King

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 Examines African American literatureâ€™s critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. The book draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which human value became intricately connected with property ownership in American culture
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Ruin And Resilience - Southern Literature And The Environment

by Daniel Spoth

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 Phrased as a reaction to the rising temperatures and swelling sea levels in the South, Ruin and Resilience conceptualizes an environmental, ecocritical ethos for the southern United States that takes account of its fundamentally vulnerable status and navigates the space between its reactionary politics and its ecological failures.
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Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster - The Antebellum South'S Love-Hate Affair With New York City

by Ritchie Devon Watson, Jr.

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 Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, this volume examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton.
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River Of Dreams - Imagining The Mississippi Before Mark Twain

by Thomas Ruys Smith

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 From Thomas Jeffersonâ€™s vision for the Mississippi to Andrew Jackson and the rowdy river culture of the early nineteenth century, this book charts the Mississippiâ€™s shifting importance in the making of America.
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Circles Of Sorrow, Lines Of Struggle - The Novels Of Toni Morrison

by Gurleen Grewal

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 This close study of the first six novels of Toni Morrison situates her as an African American writer within the American literary tradition who interrogates national identity and reconstructs social memory. The book portrays Morrison as a historiographer bridging the gap between emergent black middle-class America and its subaltern origins.
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Southerners Acting Southern - On Celebrities And Their Star Personas In The Imagined South

by Tison Pugh

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 What is the difference between a star born in the South and a "southern star"? In Southerners Acting Southern, Tison Pugh answers this intriguing question, pondering the ways in which some performers from the South metamorphose into southern stars by accentuating their geographic and cultural roots as key aspects of their star personas. Many celebrities, particularly actors, seek to transcend their hometown roots in favor of achieving an "all-American" appeal, but some stars born in the South build their national and international fan base by emphasizing the southern aspects of their biography and by leaning into regional clichés and stereotypes that percolate throughout the U.S. cultural imaginary. In turn, some southern stars trot out the region’s hoariest tropes of fading belles, gullible country rubes, and the succors of southern hospitality only to reveal the shallowness of these stereotypes and of their celebrity personas as well. Covering more than one hundred years of cultural history, Southerners Acting Southern allows readers to gauge the South’s often-reluctant progress into modernity, including discussions on the intersection of race and celebrity for the region’s Black stars and its increasing, if hesitant, embrace of queer ones. Chapters feature a wide-ranging selection of southern celebrities, including Louis Armstrong, Truman Capote, Elvis Presley, Tennessee Williams, Andy Griffith, Tina Turner, Dolly Parton, Tom Petty, Gloria Estefan, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, Ellen DeGeneres, Tyler Perry, Matthew McConaughey, Aziz Ansari, and Miley Cyrus. Southerners Acting Southern moves from past to present, from musicians to media personalities, discerning the ways in which southernness contributes to the building of personal celebrity. Altogether, this luminous work of cultural criticism reveals that southern stargazing, as much as it might initially appear a flighty pastime of overzealous fans, divulges deeper truths about the South, and the United States as a whole, that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
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Southerners Acting Southern - On Celebrities And Their Star Personas In The Imagined South

by Tison Pugh

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 What is the difference between a star born in the South and a "southern star"? In Southerners Acting Southern, Tison Pugh answers this intriguing question, pondering the ways in which some performers from the South metamorphose into southern stars by accentuating their geographic and cultural roots as key aspects of their star personas. Many celebrities, particularly actors, seek to transcend their hometown roots in favor of achieving an "all-American" appeal, but some stars born in the South build their national and international fan base by emphasizing the southern aspects of their biography and by leaning into regional clichés and stereotypes that percolate throughout the U.S. cultural imaginary. In turn, some southern stars trot out the region’s hoariest tropes of fading belles, gullible country rubes, and the succors of southern hospitality only to reveal the shallowness of these stereotypes and of their celebrity personas as well. Covering more than one hundred years of cultural history, Southerners Acting Southern allows readers to gauge the South’s often-reluctant progress into modernity, including discussions on the intersection of race and celebrity for the region’s Black stars and its increasing, if hesitant, embrace of queer ones. Chapters feature a wide-ranging selection of southern celebrities, including Louis Armstrong, Truman Capote, Elvis Presley, Tennessee Williams, Andy Griffith, Tina Turner, Dolly Parton, Tom Petty, Gloria Estefan, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Jenna Bush Hager, Ellen DeGeneres, Tyler Perry, Matthew McConaughey, Aziz Ansari, and Miley Cyrus. Southerners Acting Southern moves from past to present, from musicians to media personalities, discerning the ways in which southernness contributes to the building of personal celebrity. Altogether, this luminous work of cultural criticism reveals that southern stargazing, as much as it might initially appear a flighty pastime of overzealous fans, divulges deeper truths about the South, and the United States as a whole, that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
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America'S Imagined Revolution - The Historical Novel Of Reconstruction

by Tomos Wallbank-Hughes

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 Explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution.
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Dangerous Innocence - White Men, Mass Culture, And The Southern Outsider''S Appeal, 1960-2020

by William P. Murray

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 Investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the â€˜southern outsiderâ€™ in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020, William P. Murray probes white Americansâ€™ enduring desire to assert their own blamelessness.
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Dangerous Innocence - White Men, Mass Culture, And The Southern Outsider'S Appeal, 1960-2020

by William P. Murray

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 Investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the â€˜southern outsiderâ€™ in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020, William P. Murray probes white Americansâ€™ enduring desire to assert their own blamelessness.
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America'S Imagined Revolution - The Historical Novel Of Reconstruction

by Tomos Wallbank-Hughes

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 Explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution.
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America'S Imagined Revolution - The Historical Novel Of Reconstruction

by Tomos Wallbank-Hughes

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Explores the Reconstruction period after the Civil War to ask narratological, historiographical, and theoretical questions about how slave emancipation has (and has not) been theorized as revolution.
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Dangerous Innocence - White Men, Mass Culture, And The Southern Outsider''S Appeal, 1960-2020

by William P. Murray

~~26,43€~~ 23,79€ 10% OFF

 Investigates how prevailing constructions of white masculinity in the US South help feed and reinforce systems of racial inequity. Tracing the rise of the â€˜southern outsiderâ€™ in literature and on television from 1960 to 2020, William P. Murray probes white Americansâ€™ enduring desire to assert their own blamelessness.
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Faulkner And The Politics Of Reading

by Karl F. Zender

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 With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of William Faulkner's achievement.
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Faulkner And The Politics Of Reading

by Karl F. Zender

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 With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of William Faulknerâ€™s achievement.
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The Dirty South - Exploring A Fantasized Region, 1970â€“2020

by James A. Crank

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 With a focus on media forms through which southern identity gets articulated and questioned - including horror movies, Swamp Thing comics, and popular music - The Dirty South probes the sustained fascination with southern dirtiness while reflecting on its causes and consequences since the end of the civil rights era.
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Creole New Orleans In The Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775-1877

by Caryn Cossé Bell

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 Nowhere in the United States did the Age of Democratic Revolution exert as profound an influence as in New Orleans. In Creole New Orleans in the Revolutionary Atlantic, 1775-1877, Caryn Cosse Bell sets forth these momentous events to document the revolutionary eraâ€™s impact on the city.
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Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster - The Antebellum South''S Love-Hate Affair With New York City

by Jr. Ritchie Devon Watson

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 Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work of literary and cultural history, Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. charts how the partnership brought fantastic wealth to both the South and Gotham during the first half of the nineteenth century. That mutually beneficial alliance also cemented New York’s reputation as the northern metropolis most supportive of and hospitable to southerners. Both parties initially found the commercial and cultural entente advantageous, but their collaboration grew increasingly fraught by the 1840s as rising abolitionist sentiment in the North decried the system of chattel slavery that made possible the mass production of cotton. In an effort to stem the swelling tide of abolitionism, conservative southerners demanded absolute political fealty to their peculiar institution from the city that had profited most from the cotton trade. By 1861, reactionary circles in the South viewed New York’s failure to extend such unalloyed validation as the betrayal of an erstwhile ally that in the words of one polemicist deemed Gotham worthy of being "blotted from the list of cities." Drawing on contemporary letters, diaries, fiction, and travel writings, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster provides the first detailed study of the complicated relationship between the antebellum South and New York City in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
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Faulkner And The Politics Of Reading

by Karl F. Zender

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 With this study Karl F. Zender offers fresh readings of individual novels, themes, and motifs while also assessing the impact of recent politicized interpretations on our understanding of William Faulknerâ€™s achievement.
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Achievement Of Cormac Mccarthy

by Vereen M. Bell

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 Now back in print, Vereen M. Bell's The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy was the first critical book devoted to an author who would become one of the most celebrated American writers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
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Ruin And Resilience - Southern Literature And The Environment

by Daniel Spoth

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 In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth’s analysis winds from John Muir’s walking journey across the war-torn South, through the troubling of southern environmentalism’s modernity by Faulkner and Hurston, past the accounts of its acceleration in Welty and O’Connor, and finally into the present, uncovering how the tragic econarrative is transformed by contemporary food studies, climate fiction, and speculative tales inspired by the region. Phrased as a reaction to the rising temperatures and swelling sea levels in the South, Ruin and Resilience conceptualizes an environmental, ecocritical ethos for the southern United States that takes account of its fundamentally vulnerable status and navigates the space between its reactionary politics and its ecological failures.
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Ruin And Resilience - Southern Literature And The Environment

by Daniel Spoth

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth’s analysis winds from John Muir’s walking journey across the war-torn South, through the troubling of southern environmentalism’s modernity by Faulkner and Hurston, past the accounts of its acceleration in Welty and O’Connor, and finally into the present, uncovering how the tragic econarrative is transformed by contemporary food studies, climate fiction, and speculative tales inspired by the region. Phrased as a reaction to the rising temperatures and swelling sea levels in the South, Ruin and Resilience conceptualizes an environmental, ecocritical ethos for the southern United States that takes account of its fundamentally vulnerable status and navigates the space between its reactionary politics and its ecological failures.
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Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster - The Antebellum South''S Love-Hate Affair With New York City

by Jr. Ritchie Devon Watson

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work of literary and cultural history, Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. charts how the partnership brought fantastic wealth to both the South and Gotham during the first half of the nineteenth century. That mutually beneficial alliance also cemented New York’s reputation as the northern metropolis most supportive of and hospitable to southerners. Both parties initially found the commercial and cultural entente advantageous, but their collaboration grew increasingly fraught by the 1840s as rising abolitionist sentiment in the North decried the system of chattel slavery that made possible the mass production of cotton. In an effort to stem the swelling tide of abolitionism, conservative southerners demanded absolute political fealty to their peculiar institution from the city that had profited most from the cotton trade. By 1861, reactionary circles in the South viewed New York’s failure to extend such unalloyed validation as the betrayal of an erstwhile ally that in the words of one polemicist deemed Gotham worthy of being "blotted from the list of cities." Drawing on contemporary letters, diaries, fiction, and travel writings, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster provides the first detailed study of the complicated relationship between the antebellum South and New York City in the decades leading up to the Civil War.
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