TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Jon
TI  - Finding purple America: the South and the future of American cultural studies 
T2  - The new southern studies
SN  - 9780820345727
AV  - F208 .F563 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; What 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; 2; b
N2  - 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 inches
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