Finding purple America : the South and the future of American cultural studies / Jon Smith.
The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields. The old so...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
2013.
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| Series: | New southern studies.
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| Summary: | The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields. The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a mystic southern essence-a dangerous outside force taking the form of everything from a ""bulldozer revolution"" to a ""national project of forgetting."" Since the rise of the New Americanists, American studies has also imagined itself to be in. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780820345727 0820345725 |