Bøger af Ted Ownby

When Tammy Wynette sang "D-I-V-O-R-C-E", she famously said she "spelled out the hurtin' words" to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South.

This study demonstrates the important roles that consumer goods and shopping have played in the development of class, race and gender relations in Mississippi from the antebellum era to the 1990s. It uses sources as diverse as store ledgers, blues lyrics, and the writings of William Faulkner.

The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of the most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex - and often opposing - attitudes.