The Dirty South Emile R. Mohler Featuring clear writing and appealing

Featuring clear writing and appealing topics

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The Dirty South Emile R. Mohler Featuring clear writing and appealingThe Dirty South examines the shifting significances of the South as a constructed, fantasized region in the American psyche, particularly its frequent association with tropes of dirt that emphasize soil, garbage, trash, grit, litter, mud, swamp water, slime, and pollution. Beginning with iconic works from the 1970s such as Deliverance and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, James A. Crank traces the image of a "dirty" South into the twenty first century to