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Myth, manners, and memory / Charles Reagan Wilson, volume editor.
Title:
Myth, manners, and memory / Charles Reagan Wilson, volume editor.
Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006].
Publication Date:
2006
ISBN:
9780807830291

9780807856925
General Note:
"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
African influences -- Automobile -- Beauty, cult of -- Benighted south -- Body -- Clocks and time -- Community -- Confederate monuments -- Debutantes -- Etiquette of race relations in the Jim Crow south -- Family -- Fashion -- Fatherhood -- Fighting south -- Fraternal groups -- Fraternal orders, black -- Garden myth -- Gays -- Icons, southern -- Ladies and gentlemen -- Lynching -- Maiden aunt -- Manners -- Memory -- Modernism -- Motherhood -- Museums -- Mythic south -- New south myth -- Northern mythmaking -- Plantation myth -- Postmodernism -- Racial attitudes -- Reconstruction myth -- Regionalism -- Religion and mythology -- Romanticism -- Sexuality -- Stereotypes -- Stoicism -- Tobacco -- Victorianism -- Visiting.

Agrarians, Vanderbilt -- Ango-Saxon south -- Appalachian myth -- Babylon, south's (New Orleans) -- Black collectibles -- Black Confederates, myth of -- Burma Shave signs -- Carter era -- W.J. Cash -- Cavalier myth -- Celtic south -- Chosen people myth -- Christmas -- "City too busy to hate" (Atlanta) -- Civil War reenactments -- Confederate Memorial Day -- "Crackers" -- Elderly -- Evangeline myth -- Family reunions -- Farm Security Administration photography -- Feuds and feuding -- Flag, Confederate -- Dave Gardner -- Good old boys and girls -- Graceland -- Holidays -- Hospitality -- Jim Crow -- Juneteenth -- Lost cause myth -- L.Q.C. Lamar Society -- "Mammy" -- Mencken's south -- Margaret Mitchell -- "Moonlight-and-magnolias" myth -- Nationalism, southern -- Patriotic societies -- Pickup truck -- Pilgrimage -- Place, sense of -- Poor whites -- Johnny Reb -- Rednecks -- Sambo -- "See Rock City" -- Selma March -- Stone Mountain -- Trucking -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Frank Yerby -- Yoknapatawpha County.
Abstract:
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
MSU Volume:
v. 4.
Language:
English
No. of Holds: