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1 online resource (xxv, 208 pages) |
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The swamp and antebellum southern identity -- The southern swamp in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond -- The swamp in the twentieth-century South -- The swamp in the postmodern South : conservation, simulation, and commodification |
| Summary |
To early European colonists the swamp was a place linked with sin and impurity; to the plantation elite, it was a practical obstacle to agricultural development. For the many excluded from the white southern aristocracy--African Americans, Native Americans, Acadians, and poor, rural whites--the swamp meant something very different, providing shelter and sustenance and offering separation and protection from the dominant plantation culture. Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture explores the interplay of contradictory but equally pre-vailing metaphors: first, the swamp as the undersi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-203) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Group identity -- Southern States
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Swamps -- Social aspects -- Southern States
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Swamps in literature.
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American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
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Swamps -- Southern States -- History
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Swamp ecology -- Southern States
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HISTORY -- State & Local.
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American literature
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Civilization
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Ecology
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Group identity
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Literature
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Swamp ecology
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Swamps
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Swamps in literature
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Southern States -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125635
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Southern States -- In literature
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Southern States -- Environmental conditions
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781429460576 |
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1429460571 |
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9781604730692 |
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1604730692 |
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