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  1. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945-1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after... more

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    In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviors associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy--especially, those of racial paternalism--were believed to be essential for white southerners. The wealthy employed them to validate their identities as "aristocrats," while less.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780807135242; 0807135240; 9780807144923; 0807144924
    RVK Categories: HU 1691
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: Literatur; Paternalismus <Motiv>; Ethnische Beziehungen <Motiv>; Soziale Klasse <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 203 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index
  2. Plantation airs
    racial paternalism and the transformations of class in southern fiction, 1945-1971
    Author: Costello, Brannon
    Published: ©2007
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0807135240; 0807144924; 9780807135242; 9780807144923
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Roman américain / États-Unis (sud) / Histoire et critique; Race / Dans la littérature; Relations interethniques / Dans la littérature; Paternalisme / États-Unis (sud) / Histoire; American fiction; Paternalism in literature; Race relations in literature; Social classes in literature; Literature and society; American fiction; Race in literature; Paternalism; Poor in literature; Soziale Klasse <Motiv>; Paternalismus <Motiv>; Ethnische Beziehungen <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 203 pages)
    Notes:

    Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index

    Acknowledgments; Introduction THE PROBLEM OF FLEM SNOPES'S HAT Southern History, Racial Paternalism, and Class; 1 PATERNALISM, PROGRESS, AND "PET NEGROES" Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee; 2 PLAYING LADY AND IMITATING ARISTOCRATS Race, Class, and Money in Eudora Welty's Delta Wedding and The Ponder Heart; 3 STOPPING ON A DIME Race, Class, and the "White Economy of Material Waste" in William Faulkner's The Mansion and The Reivers; 4 MECHANICS AND MULATTOES Class, Work, and Race in Ernest Gaines's Of Love and Dustand "Bloodline."

    In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the often neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World War II, Costello asserts that well into the twentieth century, attitudes and behaviors associated with an idealized version of agrarian antebellum aristocracy--especially, those of racial paternalism--were believed to be essential for white southerners. The wealthy employed them to validate their identities as "aristocrats," while less