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The new encyclopedia of Southern culture [electronic resource] Volume 4, Myth, manners, and memory

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This volume ofThe New Encyclopedia of Southern Cultureaddresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.The 95 entries here represent a substantial revision and expansion of the material on historical memory and manners in the original edition. They address such matters as myths and memories surrounding the Old South and the Civil War; stereotypes and traditions related to the body, sexuality, gender, and family (such as debutante balls and beauty pageants); institutions and places associated with historical memory (such as cemeteries, monuments, and museums); and specific subjects and objects of myths, including the Confederate flag and Graceland. Together, they offer a compelling portrait of the "southern way of life" as it has been imagined, lived, and contested.

Title The new encyclopedia of Southern culture [electronic resource] Volume 4, Myth, manners, and memory / Charles Reagan Wilson, volume editor.
Publisher Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press
Manufacture Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
Creation Date 2006
Notes "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content African influences -- Automobile -- Beauty, cult of -- Benighted south -- Body -- Clocks and time -- Community -- Confederate monuments -- Debutantes -- Etiquette of race relations in the Jim Crow south -- Family -- Fashion -- Fatherhood -- Fighting south -- Fraternal groups -- Fraternal orders, black -- Garden myth -- Gays -- Icons, southern -- Ladies and gentlemen -- Lynching -- Maiden aunt -- Manners -- Memory -- Modernism -- Motherhood -- Museums -- Mythic south -- New south myth -- Northern mythmaking -- Plantation myth -- Postmodernism -- Racial attitudes -- Reconstruction myth -- Regionalism -- Religion and mythology -- Romanticism -- Sexuality -- Stereotypes -- Stoicism -- Tobacco -- Victorianism -- Visiting.
Agrarians, Vanderbilt -- Ango-Saxon south -- Appalachian myth -- Babylon, south's (New Orleans) -- Black collectibles -- Black Confederates, myth of -- Burma Shave signs -- Carter era -- W.J. Cash -- Cavalier myth -- Celtic south -- Chosen people myth -- Christmas -- "City too busy to hate" (Atlanta) -- Civil War reenactments -- Confederate Memorial Day -- "Crackers" -- Elderly -- Evangeline myth -- Family reunions -- Farm Security Administration photography -- Feuds and feuding -- Flag, Confederate -- Dave Gardner -- Good old boys and girls -- Graceland -- Holidays -- Hospitality -- Jim Crow -- Juneteenth -- Lost cause myth -- L.Q.C. Lamar Society -- "Mammy" -- Mencken's south -- Margaret Mitchell -- "Moonlight-and-magnolias" myth -- Nationalism, southern -- Patriotic societies -- Pickup truck -- Pilgrimage -- Place, sense of -- Poor whites -- Johnny Reb -- Rednecks -- Sambo -- "See Rock City" -- Selma March -- Stone Mountain -- Trucking -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Frank Yerby -- Yoknapatawpha County.
Series The new encyclopedia of Southern culture
v. 4
Extent 1 online resource (xviii, 297 pages) : illustrations
Language English
National Library system number 997010713375305171
MARC RECORDS
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