"Zealous in the Cause": Indian Violence, the Second Seminole War, and the Formation of a Southern Identity

Native South ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-81
Author(s):  
F. Evan Nooe
Keyword(s):  
Southern Identity ◽  
Second Seminole War

Insiders, Outsiders, and Class Anxiety

2019 ◽  
pp. 150-170
Author(s):  
Adrienne Akins Warfield
Keyword(s):  
Regional Identity ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Racial Consciousness ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
The Common ◽  
Class Status ◽  
Class Anxiety ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice

This chapter compares Welty’s “Where Is the Voice Coming From?” with Bob Dylan’s “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” exploring the relationship between class, racist violence, and regional identity through examining the common assumptions both artists shared about Medgar Evers’ murderer and his motivations. The essay argues that class anxiety manifests itself both in acts of racist violence like Beckwith’s and in artistic conceptualizations of such violence as the exclusive domain of the white Southern underclass. The chapter also analyzes the ways in which the revisions that Welty made to the story after Beckwith’s arrest were connected to the class status, Southern identity, and racial consciousness of the killer. The resemblances between Dylan’s and Welty’s responses to the Evers murder show that the tendency to associate racist violence with the economic resentments of lower-class whites is evidenced among both Northern “outsiders” and Southern “insiders.”

Pictorialism, Prolixity, and Spatial Form in Faulkner’s Post-Hollywood Racial Imaginary

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Peter Lurie
Keyword(s):  
Image Theory ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
Southern Identity

Faulkner's modernism founds its footing with his first great experimental novels and their use of interior monologue to meditate on Southern identity and the region's class ills.Following Sanctuary's 1931 publishing and the first studio contract it prompted, Faulkner's fiction altered, becoming more expansive and encompassing.This paper describes the broadened social and formal "scale" of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha novels and considers what role his encounter with the film medium played in this development.Faulkner's work had always betrayed his interest in pictorialism. Yet as several examples suggest, this tendency increased and broadened across his later career.This paper uses ideas from image theory such as W.J.T. Mitchell's "metapictures" to suggest a relationship between Faulkner's remunerations in Hollywood and the expanded lexical, syntactic, and formal workings-as well as the broadened historical and racial considerations-in his Post-Hollywood novels

Turf Tussle

2016 ◽  
pp. 103-133
Author(s):  
Ashli Que Sinberry Stokes ◽  
Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Keyword(s):  
Southern History ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
Cultural Institution ◽  
Different Types

Chapter four examines how barbecue is a Southern cultural institution that sends rhetorical messages about Southern history, gender, race, class, ritual, and fellowship. Barbecue is a type of cultural synecdoche that continues to bring different types of people together, telling stories that simultaneously shape and express contemporary Southern identity. If Southern food helps shape identity, barbecue provides a perfect example of this process because its rhetoric and ritual incites profound identification with regional styles. Tussling about which barbecue is best engages identity forming behavior that serves a rhetorical purpose in gradually knitting groups of people together over their shared love of a particular food tradition. Barbecue conveys identificatory messages of authenticity, masculinity, and rurality, stretching casuistically to still be descriptive of the South’s character. The chapter explores how (and whether) perceptions of traditional Southern foods like barbecue stretch to broaden and deepen the narrative about Southern food.

A Troubled Region and its Possible Culinary Fix

2016 ◽  
pp. 50-76
Author(s):  
Ashli Que Sinberry Stokes ◽  
Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Family History ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
The South ◽  
Constitutive Function ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Food Movement

Chapter two surveys the rhetorical problem that the South faces, a complicated history marred by racial violence, segregation and discrimination, and economic inequality. Whether you are an African American Southerner with a family history haunted by racism and violence, a white Southerner with a family history of discriminating or tolerating discrimination, or a Mexican immigrant facing negative social outcry, feeling pride in the region can be troubling. Despite conflicting identities, Southerners continue to define themselves in relation to the region, and the reality-based and stereotypical images of the Southerner are part of the identity that Southerners must encounter. The Southern food movement serves a constitutive function by helping to craft a Southern identity based on diverse, humble, and hospitable roots that confronts a divided image of the South. This rhetorically constitutive work provides an opportunity for strengthening relations within the South, as well as helping repair the negative Southern image.

The Roots of Southern Identity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Cooper ◽  
H. Gibbs Knotts
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
The South ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
Regional Group ◽  
The Social

“The Roots of Southern Identity,” grounds the book within the larger context of regional identity and social identity before turning attention directly to the issues of southern identity and southern distinctiveness. This chapter also includes original analyses, highlighting the unique role that food and politics play in the southern landscape. The chapter argues that the South remains culturally and politically distinct and that the perception of distinctiveness is a particularly important component of southern identity. In addition, the chapter examines the complicated relationship between race and southern identity. The chapter also introduces “dark side of southern identity,” a phenomenon in which politicians play on southern identity of old to prime voters to support populist, exclusionary, and even racist candidates and policies. Drawing on the social identity literature, the chapter discusses the reasons someone decides to be a member of a regional group.

Southern Identity

2017 ◽  
pp. 40-53
Author(s):  
Orville Vernon Burton ◽  
Anderson R. Rouse
Keyword(s):  
Southern Identity
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