From New South to No South: The Great Struggle with Southern Identity
FAIN: FA-37142-02
James C. Cobb
University of Georgia (Athens, GA 30602-0001)
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Associated Products
AWAY DOWN SOUTH: A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IDENTITY (Book)Title: AWAY DOWN SOUTH: A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IDENTITY
Author: JAMES C. COBB
Abstract: A unique synthesis of history, literature, economics, and popular culture, this is the first chronologically comprehensive treatment of the process whereby the South acquired its identity or identities as a distinct region or subculture within American life. If offers the most in-depth treatment thus far of the relationship between African Americans and the South, particularly the relationship between black identity and southern identity. It is also unique in treating the Southern Literary Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance as components of the same phenomenon. It uses the story of southern identity to raise questions about the concept of identity itself, especially in the highly politicized form that is observed in the contemporary globalized world. It also presents a singularly detached analysis of the importance of historical memory to the construction of identity.
Year: 2005
Primary URL:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/Cultural/?view=usa&ci=9780195315813Primary URL Description: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Secondary URL:
http://www.amazon.com/Away-Down-South-Southern-Identity/dp/0195089596Secondary URL Description: AMAZON.COM
Prizes
MARY LAWTON HODGES PRIZE IN SOUTHERN STUDIES
Date: 11/1/2006
Organization: INSTITUTE FOR SOUTHERN STUDIES, UNIV. OF S.C.
Abstract: The Hodges prize is awarded annually to the most original work that furthers understanding of the American South. The prize is open to original works in any discipline.
AWAY DOWN SOUTH: A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IDENTITY (Book)Title: AWAY DOWN SOUTH: A HISTORY OF SOUTHERN IDENTITY
Author: JAMES C. COBB
Abstract: A unique synthesis of history, literature, economics, and popular culture, this is the first chronologically comprehensive treatment of the process whereby the South acquired its identity or identities as a distinct region or subculture within American life. If offers the most in-depth treatment thus far of the relationship between African Americans and the South, particularly the relationship between black identity and southern identity. It is also unique in treating the Southern Literary Renaissance and the Harlem Renaissance as components of the same phenomenon. It uses the story of southern identity to raise questions about the concept of identity itself, especially in the highly politicized form that is observed in the contemporary globalized world. It also presents a singularly detached analysis of the importance of historical memory to the construction of identity.
Year: 2005
Primary URL:
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryAmerican/Cultural/?view=usa&ci=9780195315813Primary URL Description: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Secondary URL:
http://www.amazon.com/Away-Down-South-Southern-Identity/dp/0195089596Secondary URL Description: AMAZON.COM
Prizes
MARY LAWTON HODGES PRIZE IN SOUTHERN STUDIES
Date: 11/1/2006
Organization: INSTITUE FOR SOUTHERN STUDIES, UNIV. OF S.C.
Abstract: The Mary Lawton Hodges Prize is awarded annually to the most original work that furthers understanding of the American South. The prize is open to original works in any discipline.