The Evolved and Evolving 'Mind' of the American South ?

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• Kevin Lewis, Professor of Religious Studies, University of South Carolina and visiting fellow Wolfson College
• Tuesday 19 January 2016, 17:45-19:15
• Gatsby Room, Wolfson College.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Prof Jane Chapman.

This talk is open to the public, and may be podcast

This paper takes a retrospective look at engaging historical attempts to describe distinctive habits of mind instilled in generations of inhabitants of the traditional American “South”– effectively begun by W.J. Cash in his The Mind of the South (1941). The speaker presents a collated list of differences, observed by regional writers, between Southern and outsider Northern patterns of mind “constructed” by their respective regional cultures. As these intangible habits/patterns are diluted now in a more inter-connected world, what is continuing relevance of these reflections?

This talk is part of the Wolfson College Humanities Society talks series.

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