Explores the impact of globalization on contemporary southern culture and the South's persistence in an age of media and what Scott Romine terms “cultural reproduction”. Rather than being compromised, Romine asserts, southern cultures are both complicated and reconfigured as they increasingly detach from tradition in its conventional sense.
Scott Romine, an associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is the author of The Narrative Forms of Southern Community.