"Rednecks" have long been subjects of scorn and ridicule, especially in the South because of an antebellum caste and class system, parts of which persist to this day. In A Question of Class, Carr probes the historical and sociological reasons for the descent of "rednecks" into po...

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1. Verfasser:	Carr, Duane (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Bowling Green, Ohio Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Pr. 1996
Schlagworte:	American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism Literature and society > Southern States Poor in literature Rednecks > Southern States Social classes in literature Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature Working class whites in literature Roman Arbeiter > Motiv Weiße > Motiv Stereotyp Southern States > In literature USA > Südstaaten
Zusammenfassung:	"Rednecks" have long been subjects of scorn and ridicule, especially in the South because of an antebellum caste and class system, parts of which persist to this day. In A Question of Class, Carr probes the historical and sociological reasons for the descent of "rednecks" into poverty, their inability to rise above it, and their continuing subjugation to a stereotype developed by others and too often accepted by themselves. Carr also records the progress in southern fiction of this negative stereotype - from antebellum writers who saw "rednecks" as threats to the social order, to post-Civil War writers who lamented the lost potential of these people and urged sympathy and understanding, to modern writers who reverted, in some sense, to Old South attitudes, and finally, to contemporary writers who point toward a more democratic acceptance of this much maligned group.
Beschreibung:	VIII, 188 S.
ISBN:	0879727217 0879727225