The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980

The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980
ISBN-10
082035371X
ISBN-13
9780820353715
Category
History
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2018-09-15
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Author
Zachary J. Lechner

Description

"This interdisciplinary work is driven by the question, 'What can imaginings of the South reveal about the recent American past?' In it, Zachary J. Lechner bridges the fields of southern studies, southern history, and post-World War II American cultural and popular culture history in an effort to discern how conceptions of a tradition-bound, 'timeless' South shaped Americans' views of themselves and their society and served as a fantasied refuge from the era's political and cultural fragmentations, namely, the perceived problems associated with urbanization and 'rootlessness.' The book demonstrates that we cannot hope to understand recent U.S. history without exploring how people have conceived the South"--

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