Research Catalog

Title

Shadow and shelter : the swamp in southern culture / Anthony Wilson.

Author

Wilson, Anthony, 1975-

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

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Description

xxv, 208 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture, Anthony Wilson examines the relationship between the ecological history of the southern swamp and the evolution of southern culture from the colonial era to the present. To early European colonists, the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity. To the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development. For the many excluded from the white southern aristocracy - African Americans, Native Americans, Acadians, and poor, rural whites - the swamp meant something very different, providing shelter and sustenance and offering separation and protection from the dominant plantation culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Southern States > In literature
• Swamps > Social aspects > Southern States
• Group identity > Southern States
• Swamps > Southern States > History
• Southern States > Environmental conditions
• Swamp ecology > Southern States
• American literature > Southern States > History and criticism
• Swamps in literature
• Southern States > Civilization

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-203) and index.

Contents

The swamp and antebellum southern identity -- Southern swamp in the Civil War, reconstruction, and beyond -- The swamp in the twentieth-century South -- The swamp in the postmodern South : conservation, simulation, and commodification.

ISBN

1578068045 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005011648

OCLC

• OCM59879674
• SCSB-5218191

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries