Swinging in Place: Porch Life in Southern Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0807849774
- ISBN-13
- 9780807849774
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 193
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon
Description
An appreciation of the significance of the porch in everyday life in the US South. It reveals that the porch is a stage for many social dramas, and it uses literature, folklore, oral histories and photographs to show how southerners have used the porch to negotiate public and private boundaries.
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