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A question of class

the Redneck stereotype in southern fiction

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An edition of A question of class (1996)

A question of class

the Redneck stereotype in southern fiction

"Rednecks" have long been subjects of scorn and ridicule, especially in the South because of an antebellum caste and class system, parts of which persist to this day. In A Question of Class, Carr probes the historical and sociological reasons for the descent of "rednecks" into poverty, their inability to rise above it, and their continuing subjugation to a stereotype developed by others and too often accepted by themselves.

Carr also records the progress in southern fiction of this negative stereotype - from antebellum writers who saw "rednecks" as threats to the social order, to post-Civil War writers who lamented the lost potential of these people and urged sympathy and understanding, to modern writers who reverted, in some sense, to Old South attitudes, and finally, to contemporary writers who point toward a more democratic acceptance of this much maligned group.

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English
Pages
188

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A question of class: the Redneck stereotype in southern fiction
1996, Bowling Green State University Popular Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-183) and index.

Published in
Bowling Green, OH

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.009/353
Library of Congress
PS261 .C37 1996, PS261.C37 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 188 p. ;
Number of pages
188

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL999652M
ISBN 10
0879727217, 0879727225
LCCN
96038510
OCLC/WorldCat
35292850
Library Thing
6327641
Goodreads
4022257

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