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All-American Redneck : Variations on an Icon, from James Fenimore Cooper to the Dixie Chicks /

In contemporary culture, the stereotypical trappings of "redneckism" have been appropriated for everything from movies like Smokey and the Bandit to comedy acts like Larry the Cable Guy. Even a recent president, George W. Bush, shunned his patrician pedigree in favor of cowboy "authen...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ferrence, Matthew J. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Knoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2014]
Édition:First edition.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Rednecks among us
  • pt. 1. Redneck roots. Foundations
  • Redneck geography
  • pt. 2. Redneck unrooted. America's new redneck
  • The masculine redneck
  • The working-class redneck
  • The minority redneck
  • pt. 3. Redneck routing. Simulated redneck space
  • Rednecks for president
  • Redneck women
  • pt. 4. Redneck resistance. Rednecks writing back
  • The redneck academic
  • The imposition of identity.