Dixie Emporium Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South

Name: Dixie Emporium Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South
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ISBN: 9780820331690

ISBN-10: 0820331694

ISBN-13: 9780820331690

Edition: 2008

Authors: Anthony J. Stanonis

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This collection of ten essays focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. The cultural ironies and contradictions that have arisen from southerners' efforts to commodify their identity reveal regional anxieties about consumerism, tourism, and memory. The book's first section looks at southern souvenirs as abstractions of regional culture. Essays on such topics as Confederate imagery on consumer goods and the tacky figurine known as the Horny Hillbilly unpack the often incongruous meanings bestowed on souvenirs by their owners. Locales like Branson, Missouri, and the South of the Border tourist complex in South Carolina are discussed in the second section's essays,…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Publication date: 10/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Selling Dixies




Buying Memory: Souvenirs of the American South


Introduction: Thoughtful Souvenirs



"There Is an Abundance of Those Which Are Genuine": Northern Travelers and Souvenirs of the Antebellum South



Branding Dixie: The Selling of the American South, 1890-1930



The Riddle of the Horny Hillbilly




Coloring the Market: Race and Consumerism


Introduction: Identity Market



Refining Religion: Consumerism and African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1917



Hillbilly Heaven: Branson Tourism and the Hillbilly of the Missouri Ozarks



Behind the Sombrero: Identity and Power at South of the Border, 1949-2001



Selling the Civil Rights Movement: Montgomery, Alabama, since the 1960s




Consuming the South: Foodways and the Performance of Southern Culture


Introduction: Southern Eats



Just Like Mammy Used to Make: Foodways in the Jim Crow South



Mechanized Southern Comfort: Touring the Technological South at Krispy Kreme



The Cafe Hon: Working-Class White Femininity and Commodified Nostalgia in Postindustrial Baltimore



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