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Tacky South

by Tacky South

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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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Product Details

  • LSU Press Brand
  • Jun 15, 2022 Pub Date:
  • 080717789X ISBN-10:
  • 9780807177891 ISBN-13:
  • 312.0 pages Paperback
  • English Language
  • 9 in * 0.7 in * 6 in Dimensions:
  • 1 lb Weight: