Finding Purple America
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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 f...
The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a mystic southern essence—a dangerous outside f...
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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 f...
The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a mystic southern essence—a dangerous outside f...
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