{"product_id":"the-tacky-south-hardback-9780807177341","title":"The Tacky South (Hardback) 9780807177341","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Tacky South\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKatharine A. Burnett (Edited by), Monica Carol Miller (Edited by), Scott Romine (Series edited by), Charles Reagan Wilson (Foreword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807177341\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 June 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 6 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.265 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word \"tacky\" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called \"tackies\" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. \u003ci\u003eThe Tacky South\u003c\/i\u003e presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and the television series \u003ci\u003eMurder, She Wrote\u003c\/i\u003e to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, \u003ci\u003eThe Tacky South\u003c\/i\u003e explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52551786561816,"sku":"9780807177341","price":70.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-tacky-south-hardback-9780807177341","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}