Reconstructing Dixie
Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2003
332 pages
978-0-8223-8462-5 (ISBN)
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A cultural studies reading of white southern femininity as seen in a range of popular sites including novels, television, and tourist attractions.
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Tara McPherson is Associate Professor in the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. She is a coeditor of Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture, published by Duke University Press.
Content
Index 311
Acknowledgments ix
Dixie Then and Now: An Introduction 1
1. Romancing the South: A Tour of Lady's Legacies, Academic and Otherwise 39
2. "Both Kinds of Arms": The Civil War in the Present 95
3. Steel Magnolias, Fatal Flowers, and Designing Women: On the Limits of a Politics of Femininity in the Sun Belt South 149
4. Feeling Southern: Home, Guilt, and the Transformation of White Identity 205
Notes 257
Bibliography 293
Acknowledgments ix
Dixie Then and Now: An Introduction 1
1. Romancing the South: A Tour of Lady's Legacies, Academic and Otherwise 39
2. "Both Kinds of Arms": The Civil War in the Present 95
3. Steel Magnolias, Fatal Flowers, and Designing Women: On the Limits of a Politics of Femininity in the Sun Belt South 149
4. Feeling Southern: Home, Guilt, and the Transformation of White Identity 205
Notes 257
Bibliography 293
