{"product_id":"flashes-of-a-southern-spirit-charles-reagan-wilson-9780820338309","title":"Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of the Spirit in the South","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFlashes of a Southern Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e explores meanings of the spirit in the American South, including religious ecstasy and celebrations of regional character and distinctiveness. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharles Reagan Wilson sees ideas of the spirit as central to understanding southern identity. The South nurtured a patriotic spirit expressed in the high emotions of Confederates going off to war, but the region also was the setting for a spiritual outpouring of prayer and song during the civil rights movement. Arguing for a spiritual grounding to southern identity, Wilson shows how identifications of the spirit are crucial to understanding what makes southerners invest so much meaning in their regional identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the late nineteenth-century invention of southern tradition to early twenty-first-century folk artistic creativity, Wilson examines a wide range of cultural expression, including music, literature, folk art, media representations, and religious imagery. He finds new meanings in the works of such creative giants as William Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Elvis Presley, while at the same time closely examining little-studied figures such as the artist\/revivalist McKendree Long. Wilson proposes that southern spirituality is a neglected category of analysis in the recent flourishing of interdisciplinary studies on the South--one that opens up the cultural interaction of blacks and whites in the region.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Reagan Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820338303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820338309\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d","brand":"Charles Reagan Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45331725058303,"sku":"9780820338309","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6aa0d690-16d7-44df-bbca-7722154c76e7.jpg?v=1713970726","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/flashes-of-a-southern-spirit-charles-reagan-wilson-9780820338309","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}