03142nam 2200745 a 450 991045172960332120200520144314.01-282-91723-497866129172331-60473-069-21-4294-6057-1(CKB)1000000000471090(EBL)619225(OCoLC)191934911(SSID)ssj0000244883(PQKBManifestationID)11219777(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244883(PQKBWorkID)10170767(PQKB)10867029(MiAaPQ)EBC619225(OCoLC)86077273(MdBmJHUP)muse13598(Au-PeEL)EBL619225(CaPaEBR)ebr10157880(EXLCZ)99100000000047109020050422d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrShadow and shelter[electronic resource] the swamp in southern culture /Anthony Wilson1st ed.Jackson University Press of Mississippi20061 online resource (235 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-57806-804-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-203) and index.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.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 undersiGroup identitySouthern StatesSwampsSocial aspectsSouthern StatesSwamps in literatureAmerican literatureSouthern StatesHistory and criticismSwampsSouthern StatesHistorySwamp ecologySouthern StatesSouthern StatesCivilizationSouthern StatesIn literatureSouthern StatesEnvironmental conditionsElectronic books.Group identitySwampsSocial aspectsSwamps in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.SwampsHistory.Swamp ecology975Wilson Anthony1975-1041768MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451729603321Shadow and shelter2465517UNINA