A Cuban in Mayberry : : Looking Back at America's Hometown / / Gustavo Pérez Firmat.

Half a century after viewers first watched a father and son walking to the local fishing hole, whistling a simple, yet unforgettable, tune, The Andy Griffith Show remains one of the most popular sitcoms in the history of American television. Tens of millions of viewers have seen the show either in i...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Introduction. To the Fishing Hole --   |t Part One: The Place --   |t Chapter One. A World unto Itself --   |t Chapter Two. Against Change --   |t Chapter Three. Stopping the Story --   |t Chapter Four. Great Pages in History --   |t Chapter Five. From R.F.D. to R.I.P. --   |t Interlude: The Road to Mayberry --   |t Part Two: The People --   |t Chapter One. Sheriff without a Gun (Andy) --   |t Chapter Two. Imagination (Mr. McBeevee) --   |t Chapter Three. Life Imitates Fife (Barney) --   |t Chapter Four. A Face in the Crowd (Mr. Schwump) --   |t Chapter Five. Growing Up, Growing Old (Opie and Floyd) --   |t Chapter Six. Old Geezers (Judd and Asa) --   |t Chapter Seven. Mayberry Maidens (Aunt Bee, Helen Crump, and Thelma Lou) --   |t Chapter Eight. Beasts of the Southern Wild (Ernest T. Bass and the Darling) --   |t Chapter Nine. Otis Regrets (Otis Campbell) --   |t Chapter Ten. Love in the Country (Gomer, Goober, and Howard) --   |t Chapter Eleven. Trashy Women (Daphne and Skippy) --   |t Conclusion. Old Sam --   |t Epilogue. A Cuban in Mayberry --   |t Appendix. List of Episodes --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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520 |a Half a century after viewers first watched a father and son walking to the local fishing hole, whistling a simple, yet unforgettable, tune, The Andy Griffith Show remains one of the most popular sitcoms in the history of American television. Tens of millions of viewers have seen the show either in its original run, its ongoing reruns, on DVD, or on the internet. Websites devoted to the show abound, hundreds of fan clubs bring enthusiasts together, and a plethora of books and Mayberry-themed merchandise have celebrated all things Mayberry. A small cottage industry has even developed around the teachings of the show’s episodes. But why does a sitcom from the 1960s set in the rural South still evoke such devotion in people today? In A Cuban in Mayberry, acclaimed author Gustavo Pérez Firmat revisits America’s hometown to discover the source of its enduring appeal. He approaches the show from a unique perspective—that of an exile who has never experienced the rootedness that Andy and his fellow Mayberrians take for granted, as folks who have never strayed from home or lived among strangers. As Pérez Firmat weaves his personal recollections of exile from Cuba with an analysis of the show, he makes a convincing case that the intimacy between person and place depicted in TAGS is the secret of its lasting relevance, even as he reveals the surprising ways in which the series also reflects the racial, generational, and political turbulence of the 1960s. 
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