{"product_id":"the-zombie-memes-of-dixie-9780820367774","title":"The Zombie Memes of Dixie","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Scott Romine | Doug Thompson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: United States - State \u0026amp; Local - South (AL,AR,FL,GA,KY,LA,MS,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book traces the origin and development of several propositions, tropes, types, clichés, 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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46416024371351,"sku":"9780820367774","price":2657.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780820367774.webp?v=1769061782","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-zombie-memes-of-dixie-9780820367774","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}