The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields. The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a mystic southern essence-a dangerous outside force taking the form of everything from a ""bulldozer revolution"" to a ""national project of forgetting."" Since the rise of the New Americanists, American studies has also imagined itself to be in
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ISBN:0820345261
ISBN:9780820345260
ISBN:0820333212
ISBN:9780820333212
ISBN:0820345725
ISBN:9780820345727
Physical Description:1 online resource remote
Publisher:Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2013.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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What does an American studies scholar want? -- Songs that move hipsters to tears : Johnny Cash and the new melancholy -- German lessons : on getting over a lost supremacy -- Our turn : on Gen X, wearing vintage, and Neko Case -- Ties and a pistol : Faulkner, metropolitan fashion, and "the South" -- Flying without wings : race, civic branding, and identity politics in two twenty-first-century American cities -- In the garden.
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