The Gospel of the Soil: Southern Agrarian Resistance and the Productive Future of Food

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-20-2014

Abstract

The Southern Agrarian movement began with a consortium of writers and intellectuals who argued for Southern sovereignty during the 1930s. Fearing the forces of industrial capitalism, the Southern Agrarians argued that the technocractic mass culture of the Northeast would exterminate Southern identity. The following analysis demonstrates that even though their attempts to establish Southern sovereignty were unsuccessful, these writers reconfigured agrarian space as a sphere of political resistance against growing technologic materialism. This analysis culminates in an exploration of the way that this vision blended heterotopian space and sacred reawakening, creating a new agrarian rhetoric that would influence later generations.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Southern Communication Journal

First Page

387

Last Page

406

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