Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South Picken Conor
Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South Picken Conor Moving beyond familiar myths about moonshiners, bootleggers, and hard--drinking writers, Southern Comforts explores how alcohol and…
Specifikacia Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South Picken Conor
Southern Comforts: Drinking and the U.S. South Picken Conor
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. 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. 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.
Taken together, the essays
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The Comforts of Home
The Comforts of Home