A01=Alison Arant
A01=Caleb Doan
A01=Cara Koehler
A01=J. Gerald Kennedy
A01=John Stromski
A01=Matthew Sutton
A01=Scott Romine
A01=Susan Zieger
addiction studies and the South
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alcohol and southern culture
alcohol and the American South
alcoholic southern writers
Author_Alison Arant
Author_Caleb Doan
Author_Cara Koehler
Author_J. Gerald Kennedy
Author_John Stromski
Author_Matthew Sutton
Author_Scott Romine
Author_Susan Zieger
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B01=Matthew Dischinger
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drinking culture in the South
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southern culture and narratives of consumption
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- ISBN 9780807171738
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Mar 2020
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard-drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and drinking helped shape the literature and culture of the U.S. South.
Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and mythologies that obscure what alcohol consumption has meant over time. Complexities of race, class, and gender remain hidden amid familiar images, catchy slogans, and convenient stories.
As the first collection of scholarship that investigates the relationship between drinking and the South, Southern Comforts challenges popular assumptions by examining evocative topics drawn from literature, music, film, city life, and cocktail culture. Taken together, the essays collected here illustrate that exaggerated representations of drinking oversimplify the South's relationship to alcohol, in effect absorbing it into narratives of southern exceptionalism that persist to this day.
From Edgar Allan Poe to Richard Wright, Bessie Smith to Johnny Cash, Bourbon Street tourism to post-Katrina disaster capitalism and more, Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South uncovers the reciprocal relationship between mythologies of drinking and mythologies of region.
Edited by Conor Picken and Matthew Dischinger, this collection of seventeen thought-provoking essays proposes that discussions about drinking in southern culture often orbit around familiar figures and mythologies that obscure what alcohol consumption has meant over time. Complexities of race, class, and gender remain hidden amid familiar images, catchy slogans, and convenient stories.
As the first collection of scholarship that investigates the relationship between drinking and the South, Southern Comforts challenges popular assumptions by examining evocative topics drawn from literature, music, film, city life, and cocktail culture. Taken together, the essays collected here illustrate that exaggerated representations of drinking oversimplify the South's relationship to alcohol, in effect absorbing it into narratives of southern exceptionalism that persist to this day.
From Edgar Allan Poe to Richard Wright, Bessie Smith to Johnny Cash, Bourbon Street tourism to post-Katrina disaster capitalism and more, Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South uncovers the reciprocal relationship between mythologies of drinking and mythologies of region.
Conor Picken is assistant professor of English and the faculty director of the Compassio Learning Community at Bellarmine University.
Matthew Dischinger is a lecturer in English at Georgia State University.
Matthew Dischinger is a lecturer in English at Georgia State University.
