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Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South

Title
Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South / Tara McPherson.
Author
McPherson, Tara.
Publication
Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

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Description
xii, 318 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Popular culture > Southern States
  • Sex role > Southern States
  • Nostalgia > Southern States
  • Romanticism > Southern States
  • Southern States > Civilization
  • Southern States > Race relations
  • Southern States > Social conditions
  • United States > History > Influence. > Civil War, 1861-1865
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index.
Contents
Romancing the South : a tour of the lady's legacies, academic and otherwise -- "Both kinds of arms" : the Civil War in the present -- Steel magnolias, fatal flowers, and designing women : on the limits of a politics of femininity in the Sun Belt South -- Feeling southern : home, guilt, and the transformation of white identity.
Call Number
Sc E 03-647
ISBN
  • 0822330296 (alk. paper)
  • 0822330407 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002014232
OCLC
50591239
Author
McPherson, Tara.
Title
Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South / Tara McPherson.
Imprint
Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 03-647
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