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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Southern identity"”.
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Read it out loud : the construction of Southern identity within the living newspaper plays of the Federal Theatre Project.
… critics from the time define the aspects of identity needed to create a representation of the South from a non-Southern perspective. The first set of plays that are analyzed are all products of the New York Unit: Triple-A Plowed Under, Power, and The South. The final living newspaper …
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This corner of Canaan: curriculum studies of place and the reconstruction of the South
… the South by attending to the anomalous forms of Southernness that emerge in the interrogation of feeling Southern. Toward that end, in this dissertation I explore and foreground a marginalized Southern curriculum of nostalgia, homeplace, grace, and queerness. I investigate aspects of Southern …
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Folk Music As A Cultural Signifier In the Contemporary American South
<p>Given the continued success of a Southern folk music tradition that makes it a priority to maintain its distinctive regional and historical markings in the postmodern world, the music itself presents interesting possibilities for the evolving conceptions of Southern identity, particularly in in …
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“All the Land Thrown Open:” Southern Culture and Southern Baptist Chaplains: 1861-1865
Southern Baptist chaplains informed Confederate culture and religious belief during the American Civil War by contributing to a unique narrative of Southern identity. One sees the narrative through the letters and sermons of these chaplains to the working- class soldiery. Encompassed in Southern …
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The Road to the New South: South Carolina and the Debate Over I-95
… I-95 commenced during the 1950s, a period when Southerners promoted a regional identity of cultural distinctiveness from the rest of the United States. Disdain for federal intervention in state affairs was the hallmark of this Southern identity, and South Carolina was arguably the most vocal …
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The Little Magazine in the US South, 1921-1945
… magazines in the American South during the ‘Southern Renaissance’, a period of cultural flourishing in the region associated with authors such as William Faulkner. This period also saw the little magazine boom, where hundreds of cheaply printed magazines with small circulations published some …
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: The Everyday Southern Epic
… study examines the ways in which GWTW writes the Southern nation into history, and how the objective portrayal of its epic heroine reflects the emergence of the New Southern nation. More specifically, it looks at how the depiction of Scarlett O'Hara's "everyday" existence reflects the larger New …
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'Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction': Black Women in American Literature of the *South
… to consider what the ""South"" and what ""southernness"" mean as cultural references without looking at how black women have contributed to and contested any unified definition of that region. I focus on the late nineteenth century, a period of intense regional conflict when southern blacks …
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Re-conceptualizing southern rhetoric: a meta-critical perspective
The study of southern rhetoric and public address remains important to the study of American rhetoric and public address. However, recent years indicate a decline in the amount and variety of scholarship in this area of study. This project provides a meta-critical analysis of the history of …
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I Won't Be Reconstructed: Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, And Popular Song
… Old Rebel” typifies a certain brand of white southern identity that refuses Confederate defeat and sounds a call to arms for continued rebellion against the federal government. To begin, this study creates a biographical sketch of the author, who composed the words as a poem in 1867. Unlike …
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We Didn't Get Famous: the Story of the Southern Music Underground, 1978-1990
This thesis examines the emergence of the Southern indie music scene in the 1980s as both a rejection of the broader punk scene that had swept America and the UK in the 1970s and the blues and country inflected Southern Rock that preceded it in the 1970s. I first had the idea of doing a project on …
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Untold Stories and Silenced Voices: Lives Inside a North Georgia Elementary School
… is an inquiry into the lived experiences of Southern, white, female teachers who teach their overwhelmingly Southern, white student populations in a rural/suburban North Georgia elementary school. I explore the obstacles and challenges they face as they experience the negative and crippling …
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Growing Up Biracial and Gay in the Deep South: Living between the Color/Gender Lines
… gender lines. Without critical self-reflections, Southerners like myself, my mother, and my daughter might not recognize our own self-loathing and internalized value systems. We might be forever haunted by the ghosts of mythologized Southern history which permeate memories. The challenge to this …