Leaving the South : border crossing narratives and the remaking of Southern identity / Mary Weaks-Baxter.

"Millions of southerners left the South in the twentieth century in a mass migration that has, in many ways, rewoven the fabric of American society on cultural, political, and economic levels. Because the movements of southerners--and people in general--are controlled not only by physical boundaries...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weaks-Baxter, Mary (Author)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019]
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Physical Description:x, 206 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Southern border formation narratives: controlling the flow of people
  • The border crossing narrative and the disruption of Southern borders
  • Securing the border as a creative site: Southern masculinities and the urge to tell
  • Southern womanhood and "the high cost of living and dying in Dixie"
  • Rescripting what it means to be Southern: musical performance as border narrative
  • And then they drown: Faulkner's Quentin Compson lost in the borderlands
  • "Anywhere south of the Canadian border."