Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South: Drinking & the U.S. South (Southern Literary Studies) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807171735 ISBN 13: 9780807171738

Verlag: LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

<p>Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard­-drinking writers, <i>Southern Comforts</i> explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South.<br><br> Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-­provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and mythologies that obscure what alcohol consumption has meant over time. Complexities of race, class, and gender remain hidden amid familiar images, catchy slogans, and convenient stories. <br><br> As the first collection of scholarship that investigates the relationship between drinking and the South, <i>Southern Comforts</i> challenges popular assumptions by examining evocative topics drawn from literature, music, film, city life, and cocktail culture. Taken together, the essays collected here illustrate that exaggerated representations of drinking oversimplify the South’s relationship to alcohol, in effect absorbing it into narratives of southern exceptionalism that persist to this day. <br><br> From Edgar Allan Poe to Richard Wright, Bessie Smith to Johnny Cash, Bourbon Street tourism to post-­Katrina disaster capitalism and more, <i>Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South</i> uncovers the reciprocal relationship between mythologies of drinking and mythologies of region.</p>

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<p><b>Conor Picken </b>is assistant professor of English and the faculty director of the Compassio Learning Community at Bellarmine University.<br><br><b>Matthew Dischinger </b>is a lecturer in English at Georgia State University.</p>

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: LOUISIANA ST UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0807171735
• ISBN 13: 9780807171738
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Picken Conor, Dischinger Matthew, Romine Scott
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