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Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South
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Reconstructing Dixie : race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South

Author: Tara McPherson
Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
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Explores how ideas about the South function within American culture. This book argues that narratives of this region tend to conceal and disavow hard historical truths, particularly regarding race  Read more...

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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
McPherson, Tara.
Reconstructing Dixie.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2003
(OCoLC)606931240
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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