{"product_id":"reconstructing-dixie-9780822330295","title":"Reconstructing Dixie","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe South has long played a central role in America's national imagination - the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center. This title explores how ideas about the South function within American culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReconstructing Dixie\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful book—feisty, original, filled with insights into the circulation of the South in contemporary consumerist and feminist space. With real aplomb Tara McPherson leaps into the fracas surrounding globalization, the new geography, the racialization of ’whiteness,’ and the controversies about the uses of gender analysis. The result is a book that could release ‘southern' studies from its limited academic terrain.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of \u003ci\u003eDirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eReconstructing Dixie\u003c\/i\u003e is theoretically sophisticated in its view of southernness as a discursive construct and a cultural fantasy and in its analysis of the work regional nostalgia performs.”—Laura Kipnis, author of \u003ci\u003eBound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I was absolutely blown away by this book. Tara McPherson's readings of individual texts, ranging from\u003ci\u003e Gone With the Wind\u003c\/i\u003e to the\u003ci\u003e Captain Confederacy\u003c\/i\u003e comicbook series and Octavia Butler’s\u003ci\u003e Kindred\u003c\/i\u003e, are original, precise, and utterly convincing. She pulls to the surface the radically different ways each work deals with the critical nexus of regional, racial, class, and gender identities.”—Henry Jenkins, director of Comparative Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex 311\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Dixie Then and Now: An Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Romancing the South: A Tour of Lady’s Legacies, Academic and Otherwise 39\u003cbr\u003e 2. “Both Kinds of Arms”: The Civil War in the Present 95\u003cbr\u003e 3. Steel Magnolias, Fatal Flowers, and Designing Women: On the Limits of a Politics of Femininity in the Sun Belt South 149\u003cbr\u003e 4. Feeling Southern: Home, Guilt, and the Transformation of White Identity 205\u003cbr\u003e Notes 257\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 293","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406031561047,"sku":"9780822330295","price":80.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822330295.jpg?v=1730494307","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reconstructing-dixie-9780822330295","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}