Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America.

Chapter 3 progresses the authors' analysis of agrarian myth to American Southern Agrarian writers, representing the Old South or southern states, and their use of agrarian myth in rhetorical space. Singer et al. (2020)'s newly published book, I Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America i explores the power of agrarian myth as an influential rhetoric throughout modern and historical agrarian case studies. The authors argue through an analysis of ACLA publications that the ACLA reinvented agrarian myth by challenging state legitimacy and promoting rural life as the epitome of American democracy and virtue. [Extracted from the article]