The Tacky South book

Edited by Katharine A. Burnett & Monica Carol Miller, this entry in the Southern Literary Studies presents 18 insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from 19th Century local color fiction and the television series Murder, She Wrote to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, this book 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.

312 pages. Paperback. Foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson. Published by LSU Press.