Away down South A History of Southern Identity

Name: Away down South A History of Southern Identity
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ISBN: 9780195315813

ISBN-10: 0195315812

ISBN-13: 9780195315813

Edition: 2007

Authors: James C. Cobb

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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…

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List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/12/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 9.09" wide x 6.10" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

James C. Cobb is B. Phinizy Spalding Distinguished Professor in the History of the American South at the University of Georgia.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Cavalier and Yankee


The Origins of Southern ""Otherness""



The South Becomes a Cause



The New South and the Old Cause



The Southern Renaissance and the Revolt Against the New South Creed



Southern Writers and ""The Impossible Load of the Past""



The Mind of the South



The South of Guilt and Shame



No North, No South?


The Crisis of Southern White Identity



""Successful, Optimistic, Prosperous, and Bland"": Telling about the No South



Blackness and Southernness: African Amer