Dreaming of Dixie: How the South was Created in American Popular Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0807834718
- ISBN-13
- 9780807834718
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 210
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Karen L. Cox
Description
From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chival
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