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The Tacky South

By Katharine A. Burnett

Book information

Publisher
LSU Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9780807177914, 2021053985, 2021053986, 9780807177341, 9780807177891, 9780807177907
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2332693 bytes)
Series
Southern Literary Studies
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-02 12:15:36
LIT023000Literary CriticismNonfictionSOC022000SOC053000Sociology

Description

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.

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