Encapsulating traditional and contemporary values, the deep south finds itself immobile at the turning point of the country. Through reiterative performances of conservative social norms, thorough religious understanding, and southern conventionality, the American Dream manifests through normative structures of family, marriage, industry, and institution.

 

Alabama-Mama-Jama is a mockery of this homogenized ideology and narrates a metamorphosis of the queer southern abject into the utopian rhinestone cowgirl.