Southern Comforts
Drinking and the U.S. South
By Alison Arant, Caleb Doan, Cara Koehler, Christopher Rieger, Conor Picken, David A. Davis, Ellen Lansky, Hannah C. Griggs, J. Gerald Kennedy, Jenna Sciuto, Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield, John Stromski, Katharine Burnett, Matthew Disch | Publisher: LSU Press
About the book
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.
Editions of Southern Comforts
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780807173312
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780807171738
- PDF
- ISBN 9780807173305
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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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Southern Comforts about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Southern Comforts?
Biography, Literature and Literary studies > Literature: history and criticism
Where can I read a sample of Southern Comforts?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9780807173312
How long is Southern Comforts and how many pages does it have?
Southern Comforts has 305 page(s)
Is Southern Comforts part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series Southern Literary Studies
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Southern Comforts?
Alison Arant, Caleb Doan, Cara Koehler, Christopher Rieger, Conor Picken, David A. Davis, Ellen Lansky, Hannah C. Griggs, J. Gerald Kennedy, Jenna Sciuto, Jennie Lightweis-Goff, Jerod Ra'Del Hollyfield, John Stromski, Katharine Burnett, Matthew Disch
Who is the Publisher of the book Southern Comforts?
LSU Press
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Southern Comforts is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780807173312) and hardcover(ISBN 9780807171738) and pdf(ISBN 9780807173305)
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