Southern Comforts : Drinking and the U.S. South /

"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 U.S. South. Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dischinger, Matthew (Editor ), Picken, Conor (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Drinking of alcoholic beverages in literature.
Drinking customs in literature.
Drinking customs.
American literature.
Alcoholism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Regional.
Boissons > Fonctions sociales > États-Unis (Sud)
Alcoolisme dans la litterature.
Boissons > Fonctions sociales, dans la litterature.
Drinking customs > Southern States.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A Glass Half Full / Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger
  • Alcoholism, Temperance, and the South. Mama Likes Her Gin: Black Blueswomen, Freedom, and Alcohol in the Prohibition South / Alison Arant
  • The Spirits of Tradition: Calhoun Cocktails, Douglass Temperance, and Charles Chesnutt / John Stromski
  • The Last Black Temperance Activist: Frances Harper and the Black Public Sphere / Susan Zieger
  • "It's Either the Candy or the Hooch": Unlawful Appetites and Abject Bodies in Orson Welles's Border Noir Touch of Evil / Cara Koehler
  • The Tennessee Two-Step: Narrating Recovery in Country Music Autobiography / Matthew D. Sutton
  • Revising Narrative through Intoxication. Drink, Doubling, and Perverseness in Poe's Fiction / Caleb Doan and J. Gerald Kennedy
  • The Methodical Drinker: Alcohol, Economics, and Regional Identity in Early Virginian Literature / Katharine A. Burnett
  • The Inebriation and Adaptation of Larry Brown's Big Bad Love / Zackary Vernon
  • Flannery O'Connor, "Interleckchuls," and Cocktail Culture / Monica C. Miller
  • Trashed: Women Under the Influence of Alcohol in Wright's Native Son / Ellen Lansky
  • Miss Amelia's Liquor: "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and Surregionalism / David A. Davis
  • Alcohol's Production, Commodification, and Circulation in the South. Racial Ambiguity, Bootlegging, and the Subversion of Plantation Hierarchies in Faulkner's South / Jenna Grace Sciuto
  • Moonshine in the Sunshine State: Alcohol's Roots and Routes in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's South Moon Under and Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not / Christopher Rieger
  • Granny Fees for Apple Pie: Gender and the Settler South in Moonshine Cinema / Jerod Ra' Del Hollyfield
  • The Bourbon Street Hustle: Midcentury Tourism in John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces / Robert Rea
  • Jim Crow, Mardi Gras, and the Ojen Cocktail / Hannah C. Griggs
  • W's Good Time / Jennie Lightweis-Goff.

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