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The Southern hospitality myth : ethics, politics, race, and American memory /
"Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the social habit of hospi...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
2017.
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| Series: | The new Southern studies series
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What can one mean by Southern hospitality?
- A Virginian praises "Yankee hospitality" : rethinking the historicity of antebellum Southern hospitality
- The Amphytrion and St. Paul, the planter and the reformer : discourses of hospitality in antebellum America
- Making hospitality a crime : the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
- Southern hospitality in a transnational context : the geopolitical logic of the South's sovereign hospitality
- Reconstructing Southern hospitality in the postbellum world : reconciliation, commemoration, and commodification
- The modern proliferation of the Southern hospitality myth : repetition, revision, and reappropriation
- Epilogue: New strangers of the contemporary South.