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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie. Durham : Duke University Press, 2003 (OCoLC)606931240 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tara McPherson |
| ISBN: | 0822330296 9780822330295 0822330407 9780822330400 |
| OCLC Number: | 50591239 |
| Description: | xii, 318 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Romancing the South : a tour of the lady's legacies, academic and otherwise -- "Both kinds of arms" : the Civil War in the present -- Steel magnolias, fatal flowers, and designing women : on the limits of a politics of femininity in the Sun Belt South -- Feeling southern : home, guilt, and the transformation of white identity. |
| Responsibility: | Tara McPherson. |
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"Reconstructing Dixie is a wonderful book-feisty, original, filled with insights into the circulation of the South in contemporary consumerist and feminist space. With real aplomb Tara McPherson leaps into the fracas surrounding globalization, the new geography, the racialization of 'whiteness,' and the controversies about the uses of gender analysis. The result is a book that could release 'southern' studies from its limited academic terrain." Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing "Reconstructing Dixie is theoretically sophisticated in its view of Southerness as a discursive construct and cultural fantasy, and in analyzing what work regional nostalgia performs." Laura Kipnis, author of Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America "I was absolutely blown away by this book. Tara McPherson's readings of individual texts, ranging from Gone With the Wind to the Captain Confederacy comic-book series and Octavia Butler's Kindred, are original, precise, and utterly convincing. She pulls to the surface the radically different ways each work deals with the critical nexus of regional, racial, class, and gender identities."-Henry Jenkins, author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture Read more...
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