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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Language: | English |
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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."