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AMST 211 1nd Edition Lecture 6 Outline of Current Lecture 1. 5 terms2. What constitutes Southern swamps?3. Swamp PeopleCurrent Lecture5 terms that has a larger resonance. Imaginary: network of relations that constitute an understanding of a particular time, place, society, and culture. The spaces and connections are what interest us.What defines those imaginaries? Agency: the capacity to act. Individuals exercise agency; will. Objects possess a proxy agency because they are stand ins to action. Defines expressive culture, and enlivened space that offer instruction in our imaginaries. Avatar: Someone or thing in the South that represents a type of person, idea, or quality. It is how abstract ideas are made tangible. This is a projection of yourself or another individual. Otherness that describes self. Proxy: We let things stand in for the imaginaries either through self conscious or through translation. How do we proxy our Southern imaginaries?Liminality: Threshold, or the state between two fixed states. Space between two identities. Baptism is an example. There are also liminal imaginaries: swamps. A swamp is a place that is neither land nor water. Water: is an identity to the South. Examples are the Mississippi, the Carolina sounds, etc. Water is also history; the TVA for example. The Tennessee Valley Authority. Think also about the Middle Passage, and the voyage across the water. Water is also a resource: salt, electrical power,recreation, transportation, refuge. Water can be a disaster: hurricanes, floods, droughts. Water is something we drink or ingest: Tap water (cultural construction). Bourbon is another example. Branch is spring water. Think about sweet tea and moonshine. These all originate fromThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.water. Water is also a place of sanctification: baptism. Water is also literature: “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” What constitutes Southern swamps?Attributes: A lake covered in trees and algae, full of bugs, mosquitoes, and alligators. They have a smell. There is a high sulfur content. Swamps are also humid, which means they relate to summer and heat. The air is hazy, which means there are vapors. Swamps are habitats and refuges. They are places that harbor individuals that are in search of freedom or liberty. Swampscan also be sites of resistance. The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond"Swamp Woman" (1941): “She lived daringly, loved savagely” Ann Corio. We watched the opening scene where two men travel to a swamp with their dogs and guns. We are introduced to “swamp folks” with heavy accents and warnings. They are in search for a man. A man is in search for a “swamp woman.” How was the swamp an actor here? You have figures of speech along with ideas that swamp people did not like outsiders. There is also an appearance of the outsider in a suit, signifying that he did not know how to act. Throughout the credits, we see an architecture of the swamp. "Swamp Water" also in 1941: WWII is happening. Continual narratives of outsiderness. We are also leaving the Great Depression in which the South is suffering the most from the depression. Here you get an auditory landscape made up of natural sounds that evoke the notion of the swamp. The swamp man in this scene is very dirty, giving the idea that the swamp is also dirty. The Disney Swamp from “The Swamp Fox”: Frances Marion was the Swamp Fox that was a war leader in South Carolina that was a guerrilla fighter. He was also a veteran of the French and Indian War where he was known as somewhat vicious. He is a conflicted individual that becomes valorized as a “Robinhood.” So you go from convicts to liberators. Think about ideas from the earlier terms and statements about the swamp. Intro to “Swamp People”. Is there an imaginary there? Does it represent a particular view of the South? “Swamp People”: Overalls, their names, accents, they are all white. Carries a negative connotation. A place where middle aged white men brave the swamp and search for creatures. Swamps are primitive, and a fighter towards the man. “Man vs. Swamp” Contributes to the Southern vision that it is a very unreached, rural population. What are they trying to portray about the South?Southern Imaginary crafted in the swamp from “Swamp People”:• Caricature, primitive, sectioned off, “Man vs. Swamp"• Agency of animals against humans, remote and rural, alligators are a proxy that provides theirlivelihood and culture. • Uncivilized people group that fight animals, so they are in a way animalistic. Combat is another attribute. • Fake representation of the South (avatar), commercialism. Level of fiction• Brave the forbidding mother swamp and the challenges that it


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