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• W1465941364 abstract "Reviewed by: Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory by Anne Sarah Rubin Jacqueline G. Campbell Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory. Anne Sarah Rubin. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-4696-1777-0, 328pp., cloth, $35.00. Given the copious literature on Sherman’s March, it is no small achievement for a scholar to produce something new and fresh. Anne Sarah Rubin has achieved just this in Through the Heart of Dixie. Hers is a very different approach from those who have studied stories or memories for their veracity. Rubin is more interested in the way the stories both compete and complement each other. Using an array of evidence, she seeks to discover what myth and legends can tell us about the way people’s thoughts about this campaign and the man who led it have changed over time. An introductory chapter provides a basic chronological narrative of the march across Georgia and through the Carolinas, and then Rubin looks at the march from multiple perspectives. White southerners’ stories fall into two categories: victimization and resistance. Each had its purpose. Casting white southerners, especially southern women, as helpless victims of Sherman’s brutal soldiers served to demonize Yankees and allowed southerners a sense of moral superiority; however, stories of outwitting or defying Union soldiers proved a better fit with southern pride and honor. African Americans experienced a real dilemma in deciding whether to flee with, or from, the Union army. Many felt deeply betrayed when Sherman’s men abused or robbed blacks. Rubin notes that the importance of the march diminished in black memory until its rebirth in the 1960s, when the centennial coincided with the civil rights movement. The newly elected chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee intended to use Sherman’s March as an analogy in a speech he was to deliver as part of the March on Washington. Students were threatening their own march through the heart of Dixie, pursuing their own path to destroy segregation. The speaker was eventually [End Page 302] persuaded to omit the comment; almost a century had passed, yet the analogy was still too provocative. The final chapter in this section looks at images of the soldiers themselves. Rubin astutely notes that although we are now accustomed to thinking of veterans as scarred by their war experiences, this was not the case for Sherman’s “bummers,” who actively pushed back against Lost Cause memorialization of the war and told stories that were “hybrids of celebration and justification” (101). Chapter 5 examines the way the image of Sherman, the man, is inextricable from the campaign. In what is by far her strongest chapter, Rubin traces not only how others described Sherman but how the general was involved in creating his own image. When he died, there was a national outpouring of memorialization, and then, as the wars of the twentieth century led many to see his campaign as the genesis of total war, interest in his tactics was reborn. The final three chapters trace the ways images of Sherman and his march have been presented in various forms of popular culture, from travel and tourism to literature and film. These travel accounts fall into three chronological categories: first, Reconstruction writers focused on stories of destruction and rebuilding, with a mild interest in the status of freedpeople; second, from the 1880s until the 1960s, novelists and sociologists were most interested in the area and its history; finally, the late twentieth century produced writers who walked in Sherman’s footsteps on voyages of self-discovery. Rubin also discusses music, poetry, paintings, and photography, with a final chapter on fiction and film. As one might expect, there is a relatively deep discussion of Gone with the Wind, as both novel and film, as well as praise for E. L. Doctorow’s The March, the latest novel on this topic, which Rubin finds a remarkable exploration of complex moral issues. Ultimately Rubin’s message is that while her own march turned up relatively few physical markers, the march as metaphor lives on as a powerful symbol that we should understand..." @default.
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• W1465941364 title "Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory by Anne Sarah Rubin" @default.
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