"Dixie" and the Appropriation of Cultures: A Lecture by Coleman Hutchison

Where does the idea of "Dixie" come from? This lecture, by Coleman Hutchison, will provide an answer that question. Please join us on Wednesday, April 18, at 4:30, in Park Hall 265, as Professor Hutchison talks about "'Dixie' and the Appropriation of Cultures." Coleman Hutchison is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin. He is the author of the first literary history of the Civil War South, Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America, the co-author of a guide for students called Writing About American Literature, and the editor of A History of American Civil War Literature. He is currently writing a popular biography of Dixie, which tells the story of how a song gave the South a nickname, and how that nickname has shaped the South's cultural identity.

Sponsored by the Department of English, Ballew Lecture Series