Where the New World Is : Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales / Martyn Bone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bone, Martyn, 1974- author.

Series:

New southern studies.

The new Southern studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

American fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

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

Globalization in literature.

Southern States--In literature.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2018.

Summary:

"Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of some eighty years, challenged received readings and understandings of the U.S. South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration (or even internal migration) and economic globalization. The writers discussed by Bone emphasize how migration and labor have reconfigured the region's relation to the nation and a range of transnational scales: hemispheric (Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti), transatlantic/Black Atlantic (Denmark, England, Mauritania), and transpacific/global southern (Australia, China, Vietnam). Writers under consideration include Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, Erna Brodber, Cynthia Shearer, Ha Jin, Monique Truong, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, Peter Matthiessen, Dave Eggers, and Laila Lalami. The book also seeks to resituate southern studies by drawing on theories of "scale" that originated in human geography. In this way, Bone also offers a new paradigm in which the U.S. South is thoroughly engaged with a range of other scales from the local to the global, making both literature about the region and southern studies itself truly transnational in scope" -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction. the transnational turn in the South

The extended South of black folk: intraregional and transnational migrant

Labor in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston

Transnational/intertextual migrations and U.S. Southern, Danish, and English "folk" identities in Nella Larsen's fiction

Downsouth, upsouth, global South: migration and the "new world" in John Oliver Killens's writing

The North-South axis of race, class, and migration in Russell Banks's fiction

Workings of the spirit, spirit of the workers: migration, labor, and the extended Caribbean in Erna Brodber's Louisiana

Neoslavery, immigrant labor, and casino capitalism in Cynthia Shearer's The celestial jukebox

Southern transpacific: narratives of Asian immigration, 1965-2015

Epilogue. transnational American studies with "the South": Morrison, Matthiessen, Eggers, and lalami.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780820351858

0820351857

OCLC:

1018307092