{"product_id":"zombie-memes-of-dixie","title":"Zombie Memes of Dixie","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South--for example, that it has been shaped by a warm climate; that its people are hospitable and enjoy a slower pace of life; that it is characterized by localist tendencies and possesses a distinctive sense of place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eApproaching these propositions as memes--that is, group-forming replicators--Scott Romine argues that many of them developed in defense of slavery and evolved in its aftermath to continue to form a southern group whose \"way of life\" naturalized an emergent regime of segregation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the civil rights era, another set of mutations allowed the ostensible inclusion of groups heretofore excluded from the category \"southerner,\" mostly through the conceptualization of a \"culture\" projected backward into time. By attending closely to the historical formation and mutation of the things southerners have most often said that they \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e, we can better understand the dynamic and dialogic process of group formation in the U.S. South.","brand":"Doug Thompson, Scott Romine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46401960935660,"sku":"9780820367767","price":199.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46401960968428,"sku":"9780820367774","price":38.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780820367767.jpg?v=1745742873","url":"https:\/\/allstora.com\/products\/zombie-memes-of-dixie","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}