The Zombie Memes of Dixie【電子書籍】[ Scott Romine ]

＜p＞This book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clich?s, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. Southーfor example, that it has been shaped by a warm climate; that its people are hospitable and enjoy a slower pace of life; that it is characterized by localist tendencies and possesses a distinctive sense of place.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Approaching these propositions as memesーthat is, group-forming replicatorsーScott Romine argues that many of them developed in defense of slavery and evolved in its aftermath to continue to form a southern group whose “way of life” naturalized an emergent regime of segregation.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Following the civil rights era, another set of mutations allowed the ostensible inclusion of groups heretofore excluded from the category “southerner,” mostly through the conceptualization of a “culture” projected backward into time. By attending closely to the historical formation and mutation of the things southerners have most often said that th．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る