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Southern Comforts: Southern Literary Studies

Editat de Conor Picken, Matthew Dischinger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 mar 2020
"Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, "Southern Comforts" explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South. Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and mythologies that obscure what drinking has meant over time. Complexities of race, class, and gender remain hidden amid familiar images, catchy slogans, and convenient stories. As the first collection of scholarship that investigates the relationship between drinking and the South, "Southern Comforts" challenges popular assumptions about alcohol in the South by examining evocative topics drawn from literature, music, film, city life, and cocktail culture. Taken together, the essays collected here illustrate that exaggerated representations of drinking oversimplify the region's relationship to alcohol, in effect absorbing it into narratives of southern exceptionalism that persist to this day. From Edgar Allan Poe to Richard Wright, Bessie Smith to Johnny Cash, Bourbon Street tourism to post-Katrina disaster capitalism and more, "Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South" uncovers the reciprocal relationship between mythologies of drinking and mythologies of region"--
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ISBN-13: 9780807171738
ISBN-10: 0807171735
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 164 x 236 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Louisiana State University Press
Colecția Southern Literary Studies
Seria Southern Literary Studies


Notă biografică

Conor Picken is assistant professor of English and the faculty director of the Compassio Learning Community at Bellarmine University.
Matthew Dischinger is a lecturer in English at Georgia State University.

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Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the US South.