The Tacky South by Katharine Burnett, Monica Carol Miller, Scott Romine, Charles Reagan Wilson

The Tacky South
Katharine Burnett, Monica Carol Miller, Scott Romine, Charles Reagan Wilson
Page: 312
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ISBN: 9780807177891
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
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As a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word “tacky” has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called “tackies” who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and the television series Murder, She Wrote to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, The Tacky South explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity.

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