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Away Down South - A History of Southern Identity (Paperback, New edition)
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Away Down South - A History of Southern Identity (Paperback, New edition)
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From the seventeenth century Cavaliers and Uncle Tom's Cabin to
Civil Rights museums and today's conflicts over the Confederate
flag, here is a brilliant portrait of southern identity, served in
an engaging blend of history, literature, and popular culture. In
this insightful book, written with dry wit and sharp insight, James
C. Cobb explains how the South first came to be seen--and then came
to see itself--as a region apart from the rest of America.
As Cobb demonstrates, the legend of the aristocratic Cavalier
origins of southern planter society was nurtured by both northern
and southern writers, only to be challenged by abolitionist
critics, black and white. After the Civil War, defeated and
embittered southern whites incorporated the Cavalier myth into the
cult of the "Lost Cause," which supplied the emotional energy for
their determined crusade to rejoin the Union on their own terms.
After World War I, white writers like Ellen Glasgow, William
Faulkner and other key figures of "Southern Renaissance" as well as
their African American counterparts in the "Harlem
Renaissance"--Cobb is the first to show the strong links between
the two movements--challenged the New South creed by asking how the
grandiose vision of the South's past could be reconciled with the
dismal reality of its present. The Southern self-image underwent
another sea change in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when
the end of white supremacy shook the old definition of the
"Southern way of life"--but at the same time, African Americans
began to examine their southern roots more openly and embrace their
regional, as well as racial, identity. As the millennium turned,
the South confronted a new identity crisisbrought on by global
homogenization: if Southern culture is everywhere, has the New
South become the No South?
Here then is a major work by one of America's finest Southern
historians, a magisterial synthesis that combines rich scholarship
with provocative new insights into what the South means to
southerners and to America as well.
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