Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern CultureUniv. Press of Mississippi, 18. 9. 2009. - 208 страница 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 prevailing metaphors: first, the swamp as the underside of the myth of pastoral Eden that defined the antebellum South; and second, the swamp as the last pure vestige of undominated southern ecoculture. As the South gives in to strip malls and suburban sprawl, its wooded wetlands have come to embody the last part of the region that will always be beyond cultural domination. Examining the southern swamp from a perspective informed by ecocriticism, literary studies, and ecological history, Shadow and Shelter considers the many representations of the swamp and its evolving role in an increasingly multicultural South. |
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The Swamp and Antebellum Southern Identity | 3 |
The Southern Swamp in the Civil War Reconstruction and Beyond | 62 |
The Swamp in the TwentiethCentury South | 104 |
Conservation Simulation and Commodification | 163 |
Bibliography | 194 |
Index | 205 |
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