The Tacky South

Author(s)

• Burnett, Katharine A.
• Miller, Monica Carol
• Wilson, Charles Reagan

Bibliographic Information

The Tacky South

edited by Katharine A. Burnett & Monica Carol Miller ; foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson

（Southern literary studies）

Louisiana State University Press, c2022

• : pbk

Note

Summary: "As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and the television series Murder, She Wrote to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, The Tacky South explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity"--Provided by publisher

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and the television series Murder, She Wrote to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, The Tacky South explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity.

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Details

• NCID: BD04207640
• ISBN:
  • 9780807177891
• LCCN: 2021053985
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baton Rouge
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 293 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F209
  • DC23 : 306.0975
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Parton, Dolly
  • LCSH : Tackiness -- Southern States
  • LCSH : Aesthetics, American
  • LCSH : Southern States -- In popular culture
  • LCSH : Southern States -- Public opinion
  • LCSH : Southern States -- Civilization
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00089438