Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South

by Tara McPherson

Book Overview

The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination-the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. Reconstructing Dixie explores how ideas about the South function within American culture. Narratives of the region often cohere around such tropes as southern hospitality and the southern (white) lady. Tara McPherson argues that these discursive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822330407
• ISBN13: 9780822330400
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.4"