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Finding purple America : the South and the future of American cultural studies /

The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In this book, the author - one of the founders of the new movement - locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields. The old southern stu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Jon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2013]
Series:New southern studies.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • What does an American studies scholar want?
  • Songs that move hipsters to tears : Johnny Cash and the new melancholy
  • German lessons : on getting over a lost supremacy
  • Our turn : on Gen X, wearing vintage, and Neko Case
  • Ties and a pistol : Faulkner, metropolitan fashion, and "the South"
  • Flying without wings : race, civic branding, and identity politics in two twenty-first-century American cities
  • In the garden.