ISBN:
9780807177891
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9780807177341
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 293 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Southern literary studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.0975
Keywords:
Identität
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Popkultur
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USA Südstaaten
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Tackiness / Southern States
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Southern States / In popular culture
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Southern States / Public opinion
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Southern States / Civilization
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Parton, Dolly
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Aesthetics, American
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États-Unis (Sud) / Dans la culture populaire
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États-Unis (Sud) / Opinion publique
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États-Unis (Sud) / Civilisation
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Esthétique américaine
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Parton, Dolly
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Aesthetics, American
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Civilization
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Public opinion
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Tackiness
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Southern States
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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USA Südstaaten
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Identität
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Popkultur
Abstract:
"As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and the television series Murder, She Wrote to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, The Tacky South explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity"--
Note:
Foreword: The Southern Tacky Hall of Fame
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Introduction: What would Dolly do?
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Picturing the tacky : poor white southerners in Gilded Age periodicals
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The tacky stuff of production, entertainment, and violence : pine tar and the American South
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Tacky mountain cousins : the rise and continuing demise of the Appalachian stereotype in southern mountain literature
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We were the bad poor : trash and the limits of tackiness
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Not your mama's tacky : huckster style as southern enterprise
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Reading Lolita in coal country
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Eat dirt and die, trash : tacky, white southerners in The golden girls and murder, she wrote
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Rednecks on reality TV : The commercial act of representing rural whiteness
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Southern women don't wear sweatpants : southern mothers and the deceptive policing of appearance
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Tacky whites and elegant Creoles : the color of taste in nineteenth-century Louisiana
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He's nothing but a tacky : tackiness and transgression in frontier humor sketches
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Outhouses and others : The Ozark tacky novels of Donald Harington
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The cultural paradoxes of red velvet cake
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Perfect reflections of human imperfections : gritty, queer tackiness in the music of robert Earl Keen
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That tacky little dance band from Athens, Georgia : on seams, assemblages, and the democratic beat of the B-52s
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Tacky-Lachian Dolly : double-d femme in the double-wide mountain South
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Rhinestone cowgirls : reification and the art of southern drag
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In country music, women reclaim, reframe, and weaponize tacky
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