LEADER 03898nam 2200589Ia 450 001 9910821873903321 005 20240314002234.0 010 $a0-8203-4572-5 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060526 035 $a(EBL)1222479 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000871496 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11496104 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000871496 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10822779 035 $a(PQKB)11088798 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1222479 035 $a(OCoLC)843113654 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25494 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1222479 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10694551 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL974281 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060526 100 $a20111102d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFinding purple America $ethe south and the future of American cultural studies /$fJon Smith 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAthens, GA $cUniversity of Georgia Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (196 p.) 225 0 $aThe new southern studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8203-3321-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhat does an American studies scholar want? -- Songs that move hipsters to tears : Johnny Cash and the new melancholy -- German lessons : on getting over a lost supremacy -- Our turn : on Gen X, wearing vintage, and Neko Case -- Ties and a pistol : Faulkner, metropolitan fashion, and "the South" -- Flying without wings : race, civic branding, and identity politics in two twenty-first-century American cities -- In the garden. 330 $a"The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields. The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a mystic southern essence--a dangerous outside force taking the form of everything from a "bulldozer revolution" to a "national project of forgetting." Since the rise of the New Americanists, American studies has also imagined itself to be in a permanent crisis mode, seeking to affiliate the field and the national essence with youth countercultures that sixties leftists once imagined to be "the future." Such fantasies, Smith argues, have resulted in an old southern studies that cannot understand places like Birmingham or Atlanta (or cities at all) and an American studies that cannot understand red states. Most Americans live in neither a comforting, premodern Mayberry nor an exciting, postmodern Los Angeles but rather in what postcolonialists call "alternative modernities" and "hybrid cultures" whose relationships to past and future, to stability and change, are complex and ambivalent. Looking at how "the South" has played in global metropolitan pop culture since the nineties and at how southern popular and high culture alike have, in fact, repeatedly embraced urban modernity, Smith masterfully weaves together postcolonial theory, cultural studies, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and, surprisingly, marketing theory to open up the inconveniently in-between purple spaces and places that Americanist and southernist fantasies about "who we are"have so long sought to foreclose."--Publisher's website. 410 4$aThe New Southern Studies 606 $aHistory$zSouthern States 607 $aSouthern States$xCivilization 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization 615 0$aHistory 676 $a975.07 700 $aSmith$b Jon$01624292 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821873903321 996 $aFinding purple America$94121687 997 $aUNINA