Look away! : the U.S. South in New World studies /

Look away! : the U.S. South in New World studies / edited with an introduction by Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn.

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This title considers the U.S South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the U.S.A, including slave trade and a military defeat, are common to the Americas, postcolonial studies are the best perspective from w...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Smith, Jon, 1963- (Editor), Cohn, Deborah N., 1967- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:New Americanists.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Regionalism > Southern States.
Regionalism > Latin America.
Regionalism > Caribbean Area.
Historiography.
Regionalism.
Education.
Southern States > Study and teaching.
Southern States > Historiography.
Latin America > Study and teaching.
Latin America > Historiography.
Caribbean Area > Study and teaching.
Caribbean Area > Historiography.
Caribbean Area.
Latin America.
Southern States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : uncanny hybridities / Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn
  • New world poetics of oblivion / George B. Handley
  • Delta Desterrados : antebellum New Orleans and new world print culture / Kirsten Silva Gruesz
  • Slave resistance on the southeastern frontier : fugitives, maroons, and banditti in the age of revolution / Jane Landers
  • Martinique/Mississippi : Edouard Glissant and relational insularity / J. Michael Dash
  • Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in drag : the narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban woman and Confederate soldier / Jesse Alemán
  • Citizenship and identity in the exile autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat / Steven Hunsaker
  • Travel and transference : V.S. Naipaul and the plantation past / Leigh Anne Duck
  • Things falling apart : the postcolonial condition of Red Rock and The Leopard's Spots / Scott Romine
  • This race which is not one : the "more inextricable compositeness" of William Faulkner's South / John T. Matthews
  • Richard Wright : from the South to Africa-- and beyond / Richard King
  • Forward into the past : California and the contemporary white southern imagination / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. and Debra Rae Cohen
  • American films/American fantasies : moviegoing and regional identity in literature of the Americas / Lois Parkinson Zamora
  • Wonder and the wounds of "southern" histories / Stephanie Merrim
  • Southern economies of excess : narrative expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes / Wendy B. Faris
  • Cant matter/must matter : setting up the loom in Faulknerian and postcolonial fiction / Philip Weinstein
  • "Wherein the South differs from the North" : tracing the noncosmopolitan aesthetic in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude / Dane Johnson
  • William Faulkner and the Cold War : the politics of cultural marketing / Helen Oakley
  • William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil : the American South in Latin American literature's "other" tradition / Earl Fitz
  • Embodying greater Mexico : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the reconstruction of the Mexican question / John-Michael Rivera
  • Remembering the hacienda : history and memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh's Caballero : a Historical Novel / Vincent Pérez
  • Posdata, Beyond translation : Jorge Luis Borges revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans.

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