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Title: CIRCLING DIXIE
CONTEMPORARY SOUTHERN CULTURE THROUGH A TRANSATLANTIC LENS
By: Helen Taylor
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0813528623
ISBN 13: 9780813528625
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Publisher: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 1 October, 2000
Pages: 260
Description: Explores how contemporary Southern culture has been enthusiastically engaged - produced and reproduced - in a British context. The author suggests interpretations of the history, racial politics, music and art of both Britain and the American South, as well as the dynamic flow of culture itself.
Synopsis: "We all knew the British were fascinated with the tragic, gothic American South. This remarkable book not only documents the degree of that fascination, but also demonstrates the deep interconnectedness of two cultures. Here is an irresistable new case study for those interested in the form and function of hybridity."--Jane Gaines, program in film and video, Duke University "The author's research on the way Southern themes and icons have slipped into everyday life across the Atlantic is impressive. There is no doubt that Circling Dixie will find a sophisticated audience both in the United States and in Europe."--Linda Wagner-Martin, author of "Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family For Europeans looking across the Atlantic, American culture is often the site of desire, fascination, and envy. In Britain, the rich culture of the American South has made a particularly strong impact. Helen Taylor explores the ways in which contemporary Southern culture has been enthusiastically produced and reproduced in a British context.Taylor examines some of the South's most significant cultural exports in discussions that range across literature, music, film, television, theater, advertising, and tourism to focus on how and why Southern themes and icons have become so deeply embedded in British cultural life. The enduring legacy of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind can be seen today in the popularity of sequels, revisions, and reworkings of the novel. The conversation between cultures is further explored in British responses to Alex Hayley's Roots, the British theater's special affection for Tennessee Williams's plays, and the marketing of New Orleans as a preferred destination for European tourists. The transformation of Southern culture--itself a hybrid of European, African, and American--as it circulates back across the Atlantic suggests not only new views of the history, racial politics, music, and art of both Britain and the American South, but also an enhanced understanding of the dynamic flow of culture itself. Helen Taylor is a professor and head of the School of English at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Scarlett's Women adn coeditor of Dixie Debates.
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: US
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Returns: Returnable
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