Shadow and Shelter The Swamp in Southern Culture

Name: Shadow and Shelter The Swamp in Southern Culture
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ISBN: 9781604733860

ISBN-10: 1604733861

ISBN-13: 9781604733860

Edition: N/A

Authors: Anthony Wilson

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To early European colonists the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity; to the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development. For the many excluded from the white southern aristocracy--African Americans, Native Americans, Acadians, and poor, rural whites--the swamp meant something very different, providing shelter and sustenance and offering separation and protection from the dominant plantation culture.Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture explores the interplay of contradictory but equally prevailing metaphors: first, the swamp as the underside of the myth of pastoral Eden that defined the antebellum South; and second, the swamp as the last…

Book details

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English