Dixie Emporium - Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South

Informationen zum Autor ANTHONY J. STANONIS is a lecturer in modern U.S. history at Queens University, Belfast. He is the editor of Dixie Emporium: Tourism, Foodways, and Consumer Culture in the American South and author of Creating the Big Easy: New Orleans and the Emergence of Modern Tourism, 1918-1945 (both Georgia). Klappentext A collection of ten essays that focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. It views a region often at odds with itself on matters like race and religion, and identifies spaces, services, and products that construct various Souths that exaggerate, refute, or self-consciously safeguard elements of southernness. Zusammenfassung This collection of ten essays focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. The cultural ironies and contradictions that have arisen from southerners' efforts to commodify their identity reveal regional anxieties about consumerism, tourism, and memory.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony J. Stanonis, Anthony J. (EDT) Stanonis
• Assisted by: Anthony J Stanonis (Editor), Anthony J. Stanonis (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2008
• EAN: 9780820331690
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3169-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Amerikanische Geschichte, Kunst, allgemein, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Pop Arts / Pop Culture, ART / Popular Culture