Shadow and shelter : the swamp in southern culture / Anthony Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Anthony, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity--Southern States.

Group identity.

Swamps--Social aspects--Southern States.

Swamps.

Swamps in literature.

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

American literature.

Swamps--Southern States--History.

Swamp ecology--Southern States.

Swamp ecology.

Southern States--Civilization.

Southern States.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States--Environmental conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

To early European colonists the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity; to the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development. For the many excluded from the white southern aristocracy--African Americans, Native Americans, Acadians, and poor, rural whites--the swamp meant something very different, providing shelter and sustenance and offering separation and protection from the dominant plantation culture. Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture explores the interplay of contradictory but equally pre-vailing metaphors: first, the swamp as the undersi

Contents:

The swamp and antebellum southern identity

The southern swamp in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond

The swamp in the twentieth-century South

The swamp in the postmodern South : conservation, simulation, and commodification.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-203) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-91723-4

9786612917233

1-60473-069-2

1-4294-6057-1

OCLC:

191934911