Swinging in place : porch life in southern culture / Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon.
An appreciation of the significance of the porch in everyday life in the US South. It reveals that the porch is a stage for many social dramas, and it uses literature, folklore, oral histories and photographs to show how southerners have used the porch to negotiate public and private boundaries.
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2001.
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Setting Terms; 2: Living the Everyday Life; 3: Setting Boundaries of Race & Class; 4: Shaping the Family; 5: Fanning the Flames; Conclusion; Works Consulted; Index.