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Imagining the South: the function of “Dixie” in the United States from 1960-2017

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dc.contributorCrank, James A.
dc.contributorWhiting, Fred
dc.contributorBeidler, Philip
dc.contributorHubbs, Jolene
dc.contributor.advisorHarris, Trudier
dc.contributor.authorMurray, William P.
dc.contributor.otherUniversity of Alabama Tuscaloosa
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-16T15:03:39Z
dc.date.available2020-01-16T15:03:39Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis project takes an interdisciplinary approach and explores how the United States used the “South” to protect and project imagined white innocence from 1960-2017. The dissertation intersects with other Southern-focused monographs, such as Scott Romine’s Real South (2008), Leigh Anne Duck’s The Nation’s Region (2006), Trudier Harris’s The Scary Mason-Dixon Line (2009), and Zachary Lechner’s The South of the Mind (2018). I build on their foundation and explore how the United States employs ever-evolving strategies to preserve notions of its own goodness. My work also participates in larger discussions on critical race theory, postmodernism, and metamodernism – engaging books such as Carol Anderson’s White Rage (2016), Grace Elizabeth Hale’s Nation of Outsiders (2010), and Jeffrey Nealon’s Post-postmodernism (2012). The chapters, together, illustrate how the nation arrives in the twenty-first century at a crossroads, where it can either, once again, turn to narratives affirming white innocence or can try embracing a new kind of community – one that is built around accounting for the past and acknowledging still-present injustices.en_US
dc.format.extent263 p.
dc.format.mediumelectronic
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.otheru0015_0000001_0003410
dc.identifier.otherMurray_alatus_0004D_13870
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/6467
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Alabama Libraries
dc.relation.hasversionborn digital
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Electronic Theses and Dissertations
dc.relation.ispartofThe University of Alabama Libraries Digital Collections
dc.rightsAll rights reserved by the author unless otherwise indicated.en_US
dc.subjectAmerican literature
dc.titleImagining the South: the function of “Dixie” in the United States from 1960-2017en_US
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etdms.degree.departmentUniversity of Alabama. Department of English
etdms.degree.disciplineEnglish
etdms.degree.grantorThe University of Alabama
etdms.degree.leveldoctoral
etdms.degree.namePh.D.

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