| Description |
xxiii, 394 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Southern literary studies
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Southern literary studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword: Inventing communities, imagining places: some thoughts on southern self-fashioning / Richard Gray -- Introduction: South to new places / Sharon Monteith, Suzanne W. Jones -- PART I. SURVEYING THE TERRITORY -- Where is southern literature? The practice of place in a postsouthern age / Scott Romine -- Dismantling the monolith: Southern places - past, present, and future / Barbara Ladd -- Race and intimacy: Albert Murray's South to a very old place / Carolyn M. Jones -- Southern culture on the skids: punk, retro, narcissism, and the burden of southern history / Jon Smith -- Larry Brown's Joe and the uses and abuses of the "region" concept / Paul Lyons -- PART II. MAPPING THE REGION -- I'll take my land: contemporary southern agrarians / Suzanne W. Jones -- Toni Morrison's revisionary "nature writing": Song of Solomon and the blasted pastoral / Wes Berry -- Native American literature, ecocriticism, and the South: the inaccessible worlds of Linda Hogan's Power / Eric Gary Anderson -- Queer locations, queer transformations: Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits / Robert McRuer -- Into the suburbs: Richard Ford's sportswriter novels and the place of southern fiction / Matthew Guinn -- Placing the postsouthern "international city": Atlanta in Tom Wolfe's A man in full / Martyn Bone -- Outsiders with inside information: the Vietnamese in the fiction of the contemporary American South / Maureen Ryan -- Postmodern southern vacation: vacation advertising, globalization, and southern regionalism / Amy J. Elias -- PART III. MAKING GLOBAL CONNECTIONS -- Italy and the United States: the politics and poetics of the "southern problem" / Michael Kreyling -- North, south, east, west: constructing region in southern and East German literature / Christine Gerhardt -- "Of the same blood as this America and its history": William Faulkner and Spanish American literature / Deborah Cohn -- South and Britain: Celtic cultural connections / Helen Taylor -- Afterword: South of the mind / Diane Roberts. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
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Southern States. |
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Southern States -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Southern States -- In literature.
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| Added Author |
Jones, Suzanne Whitmore.
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Monteith, Sharon.
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| ISBN |
0807128236 alkaline paper |
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0807128406 paperback alkaline paper |
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