Introduction: memory, culture, identity -- "Something of an obstacle": remembering slavery in Morrison's Beloved -- Robert Penn Warren: the real southerner and the "hypothetical negro" -- Arms and the man: Southern honor and the memory of Vietnam -- Haiti: phantom Southern memory in Faulkner and Madison Smartt Bell -- Parody, memory, and copyright: the Southern memory market -- Nostalgia, alternate history, and the future of Southern memory.