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'The Herald of Prosperity': tracing the boll weevil myth in Alabama.

机译：《繁荣的先驱》：追溯阿拉巴马州棉铃象鼻虫的神话。

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As scholars and singers have pointed out in monographs and folk songs, the cotton boll weevil was a devastating force on southern farming and rural life. No symbol is more indicative of this destruction than Enterprise, Alabama's boll weevil monument. This essay examines not how the cotton pest destroyed the region's staple crop, but how women and men across race and class lines understood the beetle's threat and used it to their advantage. The statue, like the countless blues and folk songs about the pest, was a cultural statement that shaped the understanding of the bug itself and its supposed transformation of southern agriculture. By examining the local conditions that gave rise to dramatic, albeit short-lived, crop diversification, and in turn the monument's erection, this essay uncovers the ways in which the boll weevil myth was as important a force on southern life as the long-snouted beetle itself.
机译：正如学者和歌手在专着和民歌中指出的那样，棉铃象鼻虫对南方的农业和农村生活是毁灭性的力量。没有任何符号比阿拉巴马州的铃象鼻虫纪念碑Enterprise更能说明这种破坏。本文不是研究棉花害虫如何破坏该地区的主要农作物，而是研究种族和阶级之间的男女如何理解甲虫的威胁并利用它们的优势。该雕像像无数的蓝调和关于害虫的民歌一样，是一种文化陈述，塑造了人们对虫子本身及其对南部农业的改造的理解。通过研究导致戏剧性的，虽然短暂的，农作物多样化的当地条件，以及反过来纪念碑的竖立，这篇文章揭示了象鼻象鼻神话对南方人生命的影响与长期象鼻一样重要。甲虫本身。

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