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Look away! : the U.S. South in New World studies / edited with an introduction by Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- New Americanists.
- New Americanists
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Regionalism--Southern States.
- Regionalism.
- Regionalism--Latin America.
- Regionalism--Caribbean Area.
- Southern States--Study and teaching.
- Southern States.
- Southern States--Historiography.
- Latin America--Study and teaching.
- Latin America.
- Latin America--Historiography.
- Caribbean Area--Study and teaching.
- Caribbean Area.
- Caribbean Area--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (535 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean.
- 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 Aleman
- Citizenship and identity in the exile autobiographies of Gustavo Perez 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 Garcia Marquez'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 : Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the reconstruction of the Mexican question / John-Michael Rivera
- Remembering the hacienda : history and memory in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero : a Historical Novel / Vincent Perez
- Posdata, Beyond translation : Jorge Luis Borges revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822385776
- 0822385775
- OCLC:
- 191855704
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