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The Old South in American Literature

Name: The Old South in American Literature
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Author: Sarah Steppke
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Myth-Making and Nostalgia

Examination Thesis, 2015

59 Pages, Grade: 3,0

Sarah Steppke (Author)

Excerpt

Introduction

I. Nostalgia for the Old South

II. The Old Southern Myth

III. The Search for Identity

III.1 Southern Literary Identity
III.1.1 Plantation Fiction
III. 1.2 Apologists' notions

IV. The Interplay of Fiction and History
IV. 1 Myth-making in Gone with the Wind & Uncle Tom's Cabin
IV. 2 Gender in Gone with the Wind
IV. 3 Race in Uncle Tom's Cabin & Gone with the Wind

V. The New South
V. 1 William Faulkner

VI. The Myth prevails
VI.1 The Old South in Pop-culture: Hart of Dixie

Conclusion 53 -

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Title: The Old South in American Literature
Subtitle: Myth-Making and Nostalgia
College: Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald
Grade: 3,0
Author: Sarah Steppke (Author)
Year: 2015
Pages: 59
Catalog Number: V340218
ISBN (eBook): 9783668298194
ISBN (Book): 9783668298200
File size: 736 KB
Language: English
Keywords: Old South, USA, American Literature, Nostalgia, Gone with the Wind, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Myth of the Old South, Aristocracy;, Racism, Postcolonialism, civil war