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EUR 40,30 ISBN 978-3-86057-337-2 Reihe: Transatlantic Perspectives |
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In 1993, scholars from the United States and Europe met for the third biannual conference of the "Southern Studies Forum", hosted by the University of South Carolina at Columbia. The twenty-two essays selected for inclusion in this volume are the outcome of this and a later meeting at Cambridge Universiy in England. They demonstrate a new understanding of the cultural significance of Southern landscapes and discuss possible implications for literary criticism, social and political history as well as religious studies. Subjects range from President Jefferson’s garden architecture at Monticello and the ideology of the antebellum plantation home to literary and photographic transformations of labor in the Depression South, African-American religious rituals in South Carolina and Georgia, and contemporary fictional representations of the expanding cityscapes of the New South. In their provocative diversity, these interdisciplinary contributions debunk much of the mythology still surrounding one of the most distinctive regions in the United States, but they also reaffirm the richness, variety and continuing fascination of its many landscapes. |
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