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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777869903321

Autore

Wilson Anthony <1975->

Titolo

Shadow and shelter [[electronic resource] ] : the swamp in southern culture / / Anthony Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2006

ISBN

1-282-91723-4

9786612917233

1-60473-069-2

1-4294-6057-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

975

Soggetti

Group identity - Southern States

Swamps - Social aspects - Southern States

Swamps in literature

American literature - Southern States - History and criticism

Swamps - Southern States - History

Swamp ecology - Southern States

Southern States Civilization

Southern States In literature

Southern States Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-203) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The swamp and antebellum southern identity -- The southern swamp in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond -- The swamp in the twentieth-century South -- The swamp in the postmodern South : conservation, simulation, and commodification.

Sommario/riassunto

To early European colonists the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity; to the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development. For the many excluded from the white southern aristocracy--African Americans, Native Americans, Acadians, and poor, rural whites--the swamp meant something very different, providing shelter and sustenance and offering separation and protection from the dominant plantation culture. Shadow and Shelter:



The Swamp in Southern Culture explores the interplay of contradictory but equally pre-vailing metaphors: first, the swamp as the undersi