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

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Smith, Jon, 1963-
Cohn, Deborah N., 1967-
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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