5/30/2023 0 Comments Honey Month by Sadie Shorr-Parks![]() ![]() Smith begins the book by addressing the American Studies “crisis fantasy,” an unsustainable mode of discussion where one always writes as if in a state of emergency. He serves as coeditor for the University of Georgia Press series The New Southern Studies. His work can be seen in American Literary History, The Global South and Modern Fiction Studies. ![]() He currently teaches English at Simon Fraser University. Clearly disappointed with the current state of American Studies, Southern studies, and the oh-so-hip American Quarterly, Smith sets out to break an impasse in his debut book Finding Purple America: the South and the Future of American Cultural Studies (University of Georgia Press), a book he describes as a “scholarly exercise in “Taking It Down A Notch.” The songs of American Idol winner Ruben Studdard may not be the typical vehicle for dismantling the myth of the solid South, but author Jon Smith did not intend to write the conventional southern studies book. ![]()
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