Shadow and shelter : the swamp in southern culture / / Anthony Wilson

• Autore: Wilson Anthony <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 975
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States Civilization; Southern States In literature; Southern States Environmental conditions
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Shadow and shelter
• ISBN: 1-282-91723-4; 9786612917233; 1-60473-069-2; 1-4294-6057-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826264803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II