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  • af Scott Romine & Charles Reagan Wilson
    463,95 - 1.128,95 kr.

    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.

  • af Scott Romine
    628,95 kr.

    The first book-length collection of scholarship that applies interdisciplinary environmental humanities research to cultural analyses of the US South. Sixteen essays examine novels, nature writing, films, television, and music that address a broad range of ecological topics related to the region.

  • af Scott Romine
    753,95 kr.

    Examines the often-overlooked and undervalued impact of the US South on the origins and development of the detective genre and film noir. This wide-ranging collection engages with ongoing discussions about genre, gender, social justice, critical race theory, popular culture, cinema, and mass media.

  • - Literary and Cultural Ecologies
    af Scott Romine
    693,95 kr.

    Expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. This evocative collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales.

  • - Drinking and the U.S. South
    af Scott Romine
    653,95 kr.

    Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the US South.

  • af Scott Romine
    378,95 kr.

    Examines the paradox that communities famous for their cohesiveness and moral stability were in fact oppressive along race and class lines. The author uses readings from "Georgia Scenes", "Swallow Barn", "In Ole Virginia", "Lanterns on the Levee" and "Light in August" to illustrate this point.

  • - Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction
    af Scott Romine
    443,95 - 568,95 kr.

    Explores the impact of globalization on contemporary southern culture and the South's persistence in an age of media and what Scott Romine terms "cultural reproduction". Rather than being compromised, Romine asserts, southern cultures are both complicated and reconfigured as they increasingly detach from tradition in its conventional sense.