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The zombie memes of Dixie / Scott Romine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Romine, Scott, author.
- Series:
- Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 60.
- Mercer University Lamar memorial lectures ; no. 60
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social groups--Southern States.
- Social groups.
- Memes--Southern States.
- Memes.
- Slavery--Social aspects--Southern States.
- Slavery.
- Southern States--Social life and customs--Public opinion.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--In popular culture.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 199 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Georgia : University of Georgia Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "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 is, group-forming replicators - Scott Romine argues that many of them developed in defense of slavery and evolved in its aftermath to continue to form a southern group whose 'way of life' naturalized an emergent regime of segregation. Following the civil rights era, another set of mutations allowed the ostensible inclusion of groups heretofore excluded from the category 'Southerner,' mostly through the conceptualization of a 'culture' projected backward into time. By attending closely to the historical formation and mutation of the things Southerners have most often said that they are, we can better understand the dynamic and dialogic process of group formation in the U.S. South"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A South made of memes
- The South under construction: memes of a slaveholding people
- The South under Reconstruction
- The South is a bad idea.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780820367767
- 0820367761
- 9780820367774
- 082036777X
- OCLC:
- 1434094984
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