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Record, Document, Archive

Constructing the South out of Region

by Scott Romine, Katherine Adams, Keith Cartwright, Layla Amar, Kerrigan Casey, Julie R. Enszer, Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder, Sarah Gaby, Bryan Giemza, Allison Harris, Jacquelyne Thoni Howard, Hannah L. Jacobs, Qurat Khan, Bridget M. Marshall, Brianna McGruder, Rose Norman, Katie Owens-Murphy, Chaitra M. Powell, Rafael R. Solórzano, Drew Swanson, Dolores Flores-Silva ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes ... Read more

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Grounded in critical theory, southern studies, archival methodologies, and anticolonial thought, Record, Document, Archive illuminates how the U.S. South is made knowable through the acts, objects, and systems that produce records, documents, and archives. Rather than treating “the South” as a fixed geography or predetermined object of study, this innovative, forward-thinking collection reframes
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The Zombie Memes of Dixie

by Scott Romine ...

Series Book 60 - Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures
This book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South—for example, that it has been shaped by a warm climate; that its people are hospitable and enjoy a slower pace of life; that it is characterized by localist tendencies and possesses a distinctive sense of place.Approaching these propositions as memes—that ... Read more

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This book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South—for example, that it has been shaped by a warm climate; that its people are hospitable and enjoy a slower pace of life; that it is characterized by localist tendencies and possesses a distinctive sense of place.Approaching these propositions as memes—that
... Read more
The Tacky South

by Scott Romine ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word “tacky” has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called “tackies” who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and ... Read more

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As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word “tacky” has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called “tackies” who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and
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The Real South

Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction

by Scott Romine ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Southern Comforts

Drinking and the U.S. South

by Scott Romine, Alison Arant, John Stromski, Susan Zieger, Cara Koehler, Matthew Sutton, Caleb Doan, J. Gerald Kennedy, Katharine Burnett, Zackary Vernon, Monica Carol Miller, Ellen Lansky, David A. Davis, Jenna Sciuto, Christopher Rieger, Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield, Robert Rea, Hannah C. Griggs, Jennie Lightweis-Goff ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South.Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and ... Read more

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Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South.Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and
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Ecocriticism and the Future of Southern Studies

by Scott Romine, Robert Azzarello, Delia Byrnes, Lisa Hinrichsen, Sam Horrocks, Evangelia Kindinger, Christopher Lloyd, Sarah McFarland, John Moran, Joshua Myers, Scott Obernesser, Lucas Sheaffer, Jimmy Dean Smith, Daniel Spoth, Joseph Thompson, Ila Tyagi, Jonathan Villalobos, Jay Watson ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
As the planet faces ever-worsening disruptions to global ecosystems—carbon and chemical emissions, depletions of the ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, air toxification, and worsening floods and droughts—scholars across academia must examine the cultural effects of this increasingly postnatural world. That task proves especially vital for southern studies, given how often ... Read more

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As the planet faces ever-worsening disruptions to global ecosystems—carbon and chemical emissions, depletions of the ozone layer, the loss of biodiversity, rising sea levels, air toxification, and worsening floods and droughts—scholars across academia must examine the cultural effects of this increasingly postnatural world. That task proves especially vital for southern studies, given how often
... Read more
Swamp Souths

Literary and Cultural Ecologies

by Scott Romine, Keely Byars-Nichols, William Tynes Cowan, Rain Prud'homme-Cranford, Josh-Wade Ferguson, Hannah Godwin, Peter Jay Ingrao, Joseph Kuhn, Lauren E. LaFauci, John Wharton Lowe, Rebecca Mark, Jessica Martell, Matthew E. Suazo, Matthew Sutton, Susan Thananopavarn, Mitch Therieau, Zackary Vernon ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States—the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp—this evocative collection challenges fixed notions of ... Read more

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Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States—the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp—this evocative collection challenges fixed notions of
... Read more
Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster

The Antebellum South's Love-Hate Affair with New York City

by Ritchie Devon Watson Jr., Scott Romine ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work of literary and cultural history, Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. charts how the partnership brought fantastic wealth to both ... Read more

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Focusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, Grand Emporium, Mercantile Monster examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton. In this richly detailed work of literary and cultural history, Ritchie Devon Watson Jr. charts how the partnership brought fantastic wealth to both
... Read more
Southerners Acting Southern

On Celebrities and Their Star Personas in the Imagined South

by Tison Pugh, Scott Romine ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
What is the difference between a star born in the South and a “southern star”? In Southerners Acting Southern, Tison Pugh answers this intriguing question, pondering the ways in which some performers from the South metamorphose into southern stars by accentuating their geographic and cultural roots as key aspects of their star personas.Many celebrities, particularly actors, seek to transcend their ... Read more

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What is the difference between a star born in the South and a “southern star”? In Southerners Acting Southern, Tison Pugh answers this intriguing question, pondering the ways in which some performers from the South metamorphose into southern stars by accentuating their geographic and cultural roots as key aspects of their star personas.Many celebrities, particularly actors, seek to transcend their
... Read more
The Bad Poor

Race, Class, and the Rise of Grit Lit

by Mitch Ploskonka, Scott Romine ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
The Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary-cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and ... Read more

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The Bad Poor examines the rise of Grit Lit, a movement in contemporary southern literature written by and about poor southern whites. Examining issues of genre, race, and culture, Mitch Ploskonka traces the emergence of this iconoclastic mode through its major authors to reveal a literary-cultural identity rooted in difference, marked by resistance to respectability and class performance, and
... Read more
Faulknerista

by Catherine G. Kodat, Scott Romine ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding essays and now updated and revised, the book’s nine chapters place Faulkner’s work in the context of current debates concerning the politics of white ... Read more

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Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding essays and now updated and revised, the book’s nine chapters place Faulkner’s work in the context of current debates concerning the politics of white
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Ruin and Resilience

Southern Literature and the Environment

by Daniel Spoth, Scott Romine ...

Series series Southern Literary Studies
In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth’s analysis winds from John Muir’s walking journey across the war-torn South, through the troubling of southern environmentalism’s modernity by Faulkner and Hurston, past the ... Read more

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In Ruin and Resilience, Daniel Spoth confronts why the environmental stories told about the U.S. South curve inevitably toward distressing plotlines. Examining more than a dozen works of postbellum literature and cinema, Spoth’s analysis winds from John Muir’s walking journey across the war-torn South, through the troubling of southern environmentalism’s modernity by Faulkner and Hurston, past the
... Read more

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The Zombie Memes of Dixie

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