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Auteur(s) : Ferrence, Matthew J.
Titre(s) : All-American redneck [Texte imprimé] : variations on an icon, from James Fenimore Cooper to the Dixie Chicks / Matthew J. Ferrence
Édition : First edition
Publication : Knoxville : the University of Tennessee press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-191 p.) ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: Rednecks among us ; pt. 1. Redneck roots. Foundations ; Redneck geography
; pt. 2. Redneck unrooted. America's new redneck ; The masculine redneck ; The working-class
redneck ; The minority redneck ; pt. 3. Redneck routing. Simulated redneck space
; Rednecks for president ; Redneck women ; pt. 4. Redneck resistance. Rednecks writing
back ; The redneck academic ; The imposition of identity.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index
"In contemporary culture, the stereotypical trappings of 'redneckism' have been appropriated
for everything from movies like Smokey and the Bandit to comedy acts like Larry the
Cable Guy. Even a recent president, George W. Bush, shunned his patrician pedigree
in favor of cowboy 'authenticity' to appeal to voters. Whether identified with hard
work and patriotism or with narrow-minded bigotry, the Redneck and its variants have
become firmly established in American narrative consciousness. This provocative book
traces the emergence of the faux-Redneck within the context of literary and cultural
studies. Examining the icon's foundations in James Fenimore Cooper's Natty Bumppo--'an
ideal white man, free of the boundaries of civilization'--and the degraded rural poor
of Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road, Matthew Ferrence shows how Redneck stereotypes
were further extended in Deliverance, both the novel and the film, and in a popular
cycle of movies starring Burt Reynolds in the 1970s and '80s, among other manifestations.
As a contemporary cultural figure, the author argues, the Redneck represents no one
in particular but offers a model of behavior and ideals for many. Most important,
it has become a tool--reductive, confining, and (sometimes, almost) liberating--by
which elite forces gather and maintain social and economic power. Those defying its
boundaries, as the Dixie Chicks did when they criticized President Bush and the Iraq
invasion, have done so at their own peril. Ferrence contends that a refocus of attention
to the complex realities depicted in the writings of such authors as Silas House,
Fred Chappell, Janisse Ray, and Trudier Harris can help dislodge persistent stereotypes
and encourage more nuanced understandings of regional identity. In a cultural moment
when so-called Reality Television has turned again toward popular images of rural
Americans (as in, for example, Duck Dynasty and Moonshiners), All-American Redneck
reveals the way in which such images have long been manipulated for particular social
goals, almost always as a means to solidify the position of the powerful at the expense
of the regional."--book jacket
Sujet(s) : Littérature américaine -- Thèmes, motifs
Culture populaire -- États-Unis -- Thèmes, motifs
Rednecks -- Dans la littérature
Films de rednecks -- États-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781621900078 (hardcover). - ISBN 162190007X (hardcover)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43881270w
Notice n° :
FRBNF43881270
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