Calypso magnolia : the crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern literature / John Wharton Lowe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, John Wharton, author.

Series:

New directions in southern studies.

New Directions in Southern Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

American literature.

Caribbean literature--History and criticism.

Caribbean literature.

Caribbean Area--In literature.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : The University of North Carolina Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Focusing on the states of the Deep South in relation with Mexico and island nations such as Haiti and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of Southern literature as encompassing the "circumCaribbean," a fluid and dynamic framework within which to consider literary history, genre, and aesthetics."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Crossing the Caribbean: southerners write the Mexican American War

Liberating fictions: the Caribbean imaginary in the novels of Lucy Holcombe Pickens and Martin Delany

Unleashing the loas: the literary legacy of the Haitian revolution in the United States South and the Caribbean

Constance Fenimore Woolson and Lafcadio Hearn: extending the boundaries of the transnational South

A proper order of attention: McKay and Hurston honor the hardy peasant

Palette of fire: the aesthetics of propaganda in Black boy and The castle of my skin

Southern ajiaco: Miami and the generation of Cuban American writing.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890843012

9798890843029

9781469626215

1469626217

9781469628059

1469628058

OCLC:

939598257