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Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South / Tara McPherson

Catalog Data

Author:
McPherson, Tara  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 318 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
History
Place:
Southern States
United States
Date:
2003
Civil War, 1861-1865
Notes:
Also issued online.
Contents:
Romancing the South : a tour of the lady's legacies, academic and otherwise -- "Both kinds of arms" : the Civil War in the present -- Steel magnolias, fatal flowers, and designing women : on the limits of a politics of femininity in the Sun Belt South -- Feeling southern : home, guilt, and the transformation of white identity
Topic:
Popular culture  Search this
Sex role  Search this
Nostalgia  Search this
Romanticism  Search this
Civilization  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Social conditions  Search this
History  Search this
Influence  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1103228