The real South: southern narrative in the age of cultural reproduction
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1. Verfasser: Romine, Scott (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Southern literary studies
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-277) and index
Tara! Tara! Tara! : Gone with the Wind and the work of cultural reproduction -- Place into culture : Tony Horwitz, V.S. Naipaul, and travel on a late southern theme -- Real/Black/South : roots, seams, and cultural reproduction -- Simulation and civil rights : Lewis Nordan's Wolf whistle and the swamp of the real -- Mass South/mapped South : the ambiguous terrains of Bobbie Ann Mason and James Wilcox -- Southern homes after the family : deregulated reality in Barry Hannah and Josephine Humphreys -- Southern loops : a circular conclusion
In this stimulating study, Scott Romine explores the impact of globalization on contemporary southern culture and the South's persistence in an age of media and what he terms "cultural reproduction." Rather than being compromised, Romine asserts, southern cultures are both complicated and reconfigured as they increasingly detach from tradition in its conventional sense. In considering Souths that might appear fake--the Souths of the theme restaurant, commercial television, and popular regional magazines, for example--Romine contends that authenticity and reality emerge as central conce
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ISBN:0807134295
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