The tacky South:
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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Burnett, Katharine A. 1983- (HerausgeberIn), Miller, Monica Carol 1974- (HerausgeberIn), Wilson, Charles Reagan 1948- (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Baton Rouge Louisiana State University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Southern literary studies
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Abstract:"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 the television series Murder, She Wrote to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, The Tacky South explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity"--
Umfang:xvii, 293 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780807177891
9780807177341