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Stories of the South

By Prince, K. Stephen

Stories of the South book

Stories of the South

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In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South’s image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. In Stories of the South, K. Stephen Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow.
Examining novels, minstrel songs, travel brochures, illustrations, oratory, and other cultural artifacts produced in the half century following the Civil War, Prince demonstrates the centrality of popular culture to the reconstruction of southern identity, shedding new light on the complicity of the North in the retreat from the possibility of racial democracy.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
334
Release Date:
2016-02-01
Publication Date:
2016-02-01
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
14696272801469614189
ISBN13:
9781469627281
Weight:
570 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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