{"product_id":"the-zombie-memes-of-dixie-9780820367767","title":"The Zombie Memes of Dixie","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clich?s, and ideas commonly associated with the U.S. South--for example, that it has been shaped by a warm climate; that its people are hospitable and enjoy a slower pace of life; that it is characterized by localist tendencies and possesses a distinctive sense of place. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eApproaching these propositions as memes--that is, group-forming replicators--Scott Romine argues that many of them developed in defense of slavery and evolved in its aftermath to continue to form a southern group whose \"way of life\" naturalized an emergent regime of segregation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFollowing the civil rights era, another set of mutations allowed the ostensible inclusion of groups heretofore excluded from the category \"southerner,\" mostly through the conceptualization of a \"culture\" projected backward into time. By attending closely to the historical formation and mutation of the things southerners have most often said that they \u003ci\u003eare\u003c\/i\u003e, we can better understand the dynamic and dialogic process of group formation in the U.S. South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSCOTT ROMINE is professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Narrative Forms of Southern Community \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction, \u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Southern Studies\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia). He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900551991570,"sku":"9780820367767","price":131.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a3183f9-8b73-4195-8a6e-225b4235b998.jpg?v=1738386537","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-zombie-memes-of-dixie-9780820367767","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}