Reconstructing Dixie
Subtitle: race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South
By: Tara McPherson.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Popular culture -- Southern States.; Sex role -- Southern States.; Nostalgia -- Southern States.; Romanticism -- Southern States.; Southern States -- Civilization.; Southern States -- Race relations.; Southern States -- Social conditions.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Influence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Romancing the South : a tour of the lady's legacies, academic and otherwise; title: "Both kinds of arms" : the Civil War in the present; title: Steel magnolias, fatal flowers, and designing women : on the limits of a politics of femininity in the Sun Belt South; title: Feeling southern : home, guilt, and the transformation of white identity.