Unsteadily marching on : the U.S. South in motion / Constante González Groba, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

González Groba, Constante, editor. .

Series:

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans ; 98.

Biblioteca Javier Coy d'estudis nord-americans ; 98

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

Edición digital.

Place of Publication:

València : Publicacions de la Universitat de València, 2013.

Summary:

This collection includes a rich variety of approaches to Southerners' complex understandings of change and developments reflected in the literature, history, and culture of this distinctive region. Contributors from both sides of the Atlantic address introspective journeys of literary pilgrimage, shed new light on the history of the civil rights movement as well as its reflection in literature, analyse transactions from literature to film, trace religious pilgrimages in both history and film, and follow a host of authors and literary figures on their journeys through the South or their forced or voluntary flight from it, in search of other places where they might find refuge or where they might sow the seeds of a new beginning.

Contents:

Mister M, Mister I, Mister SSI / Bill Lazenblatt

From Space to Self: Will Barrett's Travels in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman / Gérald Préher

Leaving New York: The Post-9/11 South in Reynolds Price and Jay McInerney / Thomas Ærvold Bjerre

Cormac McCarthy and the Craftsman Hero / Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr.

Moveable South: Plantation Memory in Cormac McCarthy's The Road / John T. Matthews

"Man delights not me": Blood Meridian and the Apocalypse / John Nordby Gretlund

Suffer Little Children: McCarthy's Lazarillos and the Ordeal of Mobility in the Southern Canon / Jacques Pothier

Jason as Cajun Saint: The Sound and the Fury on Film / M. Thomas Inge

Culinary Journey across the Color Line: Foodways and Race in Southern Literature and Motion Pictures / Urzula Niewiadomska-Flis

Elvis Culture(d), or How the South Got Democratized / Beata Zawadka

Gone to Washington: Mobilizing the 1968 Poor People's Campaign / Elizabeth Hayes Turner

Progressive White Catholics in the South and Civil Rights, 1945-1970 / Mark Newman

Turning South Again: Conjuring Mississippi's Freedom Summer in Sans Souchi, Trinidad / Sharon Monteith

Intersections of History and Fiction in Thulani Davis's 1959 / Youli Theodosiadou

From the Old South to New: the Transformation of Southern Religion / David Goldfield

Hard Road to Salvation: Southern Fundamentalism in Peter Taylor's "The Hand of Emmagene" / Ineke Bockting

Once Upon a Doctor's Life: Abraham Verghese's Coming of Age in East Tennessee in the Era of AIDS / Nahem Yousaf

Haitian Connection and the Burden of Southern History in Connie May Fowler's Sugar Cage / Suzanne W. Jones

Fast Journey from the Slow South: Mobility and Identity in Chris Offutt's The Good Brother / Marcel Arbeit

Transcending Southern Borders-Writing Home from Europe / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

African Americans Moving from the South to the Non-South (1916-1918) / Valeria Gennaro Lerda.

Notes:

Selected papers presented at a meeting held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Sept. 2011

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed December 1, 2016)

ISBN:

9788491341482

849134148X

OCLC:

991936162