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Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined south / Tara McPherson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McPherson, Tara, author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- American Encounters/Global Interactions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--Southern States.
- Popular culture.
- Sex role--Southern States.
- Sex role.
- Nostalgia--Southern States.
- Nostalgia.
- Romanticism--Southern States.
- Romanticism.
- Southern States--Civilization.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Race relations.
- Southern States--Social conditions.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Influence.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focuses on environmental, policy, and human rights dimensions of the activities of the U.S. military in Panama, analyzing the guiding mythologies and racial stereotypes behind the US's colonialism in the region.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed February 14, 2020).
- ISBN:
- 9786612920622
- 9780822330295
- 0822330296
- 9781282920620
- 1282920626
- 9780822384625
- 0822384620
- OCLC:
- 850218062
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