{"product_id":"the-tacky-south-9780807177341","title":"The Tacky South","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Katharine Burnett | Monica Carol Miller | Scott Romine\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Regional Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46416979034263,"sku":"9780807177341","price":9309.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807177341.webp?v=1769065666","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-tacky-south-9780807177341","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}