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The Southern hospitality myth : ethics, politics, race, and American memory, Anthony Szczesiul

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"Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the social habit of hospitality--which is exercised among diverse individuals and is widely varied in its particular practices--and so generalized it as to make it a cultural trait of an entire region of the country. Historians have offered a variety of explanations of the origins and cultural practices of hospitality in the antebellum South. Economic historians have at times portrayed Southern hospitality as evidence of conspicuous consumption and competition among wealthy planters, while cultural historians have treated it peripherally as a symptomatic expression of the Southern code of honor. Although historians have offered different theories, they generally agree that the mythic dimensions of Southern hospitality eventually outstripped its actual practices. Szczesiul examines why we have chosen to remember and valorize this particular aspect of the South, and he raises fundamental ethical questions that underlie both the concept of hospitality and the cultural work of American memory, particularly in light of the region's historical legacy of slavery and segregation"--Provided by publisher
Language
eng
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Edition
Paperback edition.
Extent
xi, 293 pages
Contents
  • Epilogue:
  • New strangers of the contemporary South
  • Introduction.
  • What can one mean by Southern hospitality?
  • A Virginian praises "Yankee hospitality" : rethinking the historicity of antebellum Southern hospitality
  • The Amphytrion and St. Paul, the planter and the reformer : discourses of hospitality in antebellum America
  • Making hospitality a crime : the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
  • Southern hospitality in a transnational context : the geopolitical logic of the South's sovereign hospitality
  • Reconstructing Southern hospitality in the postbellum world : reconciliation, commemoration, and commodification
  • The modern proliferation of the Southern hospitality myth : repetition, revision, and reappropriation
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9780820355511
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The Southern hospitality myth : ethics, politics, race, and American memory
Title
The Southern hospitality myth
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ethics, politics, race, and American memory
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Anthony Szczesiul
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
"Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the social habit of hospitality--which is exercised among diverse individuals and is widely varied in its particular practices--and so generalized it as to make it a cultural trait of an entire region of the country. Historians have offered a variety of explanations of the origins and cultural practices of hospitality in the antebellum South. Economic historians have at times portrayed Southern hospitality as evidence of conspicuous consumption and competition among wealthy planters, while cultural historians have treated it peripherally as a symptomatic expression of the Southern code of honor. Although historians have offered different theories, they generally agree that the mythic dimensions of Southern hospitality eventually outstripped its actual practices. Szczesiul examines why we have chosen to remember and valorize this particular aspect of the South, and he raises fundamental ethical questions that underlie both the concept of hospitality and the cultural work of American memory, particularly in light of the region's historical legacy of slavery and segregation"--Provided by publisher
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Szczesiul, Anthony
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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illustrations
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index present
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non fiction
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bibliography
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The new Southern studies
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  • Southern States
  • Hospitality
  • Hospitality
  • Southern States
  • Racism
  • Southern States
  • Regionalism
  • Memory
  • Memory
  • Public opinion
  • Slavery
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The Southern hospitality myth : ethics, politics, race, and American memory, Anthony Szczesiul
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index
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volume
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
  • Epilogue:
  • New strangers of the contemporary South
  • Introduction.
  • What can one mean by Southern hospitality?
  • A Virginian praises "Yankee hospitality" : rethinking the historicity of antebellum Southern hospitality
  • The Amphytrion and St. Paul, the planter and the reformer : discourses of hospitality in antebellum America
  • Making hospitality a crime : the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
  • Southern hospitality in a transnational context : the geopolitical logic of the South's sovereign hospitality
  • Reconstructing Southern hospitality in the postbellum world : reconciliation, commemoration, and commodification
  • The modern proliferation of the Southern hospitality myth : repetition, revision, and reappropriation
Control code
on1089811959
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Extent
xi, 293 pages
Isbn
9780820355511
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1089811959
Label
The Southern hospitality myth : ethics, politics, race, and American memory, Anthony Szczesiul
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Epilogue:
  • New strangers of the contemporary South
  • Introduction.
  • What can one mean by Southern hospitality?
  • A Virginian praises "Yankee hospitality" : rethinking the historicity of antebellum Southern hospitality
  • The Amphytrion and St. Paul, the planter and the reformer : discourses of hospitality in antebellum America
  • Making hospitality a crime : the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850
  • Southern hospitality in a transnational context : the geopolitical logic of the South's sovereign hospitality
  • Reconstructing Southern hospitality in the postbellum world : reconciliation, commemoration, and commodification
  • The modern proliferation of the Southern hospitality myth : repetition, revision, and reappropriation
Control code
on1089811959
Dimensions
23 cm.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Extent
xi, 293 pages
Isbn
9780820355511
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1089811959

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