Synopses & Reviews
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice.
Review
This fascinating volume covers a lot of territory. . . . Nobody interested in the region should be without it.
Richard Gray FBA, author of Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region and Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism
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This volume maintains the project's high standards of writing, scholarship, and coverage. . . . An essential work for all southern historians.
David Goldfield, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
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"The insight, academic excellence, and depth of understanding of many of the topics make reading this volume a great pleasure."
-Western Folklore This volume maintains the project's high standards of writing, scholarship, and coverage. . . . An essential work for all southern historians.
David Goldfield, University of North Carolina-Charlotte This fascinating volume covers a lot of territory. . . . Nobody interested in the region should be without it.
Richard Gray FBA, author of Writing the South: Ideas of an American Region and Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism
Synopsis
Rev. ed. of: Encyclopedia of Southern culture. 1991.
About the Author
Charles Reagan Wilson is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and coeditor, with William Ferris, of the original Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.