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563 p. |
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unmediated |
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Introduction -- Contact to the Civil War. Literary and textual histories of the native South / Eric Gary Anderson; Before hypodescent: whitening equations in South America and the American South / Ruth Hill; - The dying confession of Joseph Hare (1818): transatlantic highwaymen and southern outlaws in the antebellum South / thomas Ruys Smith; Jackson's villes, squares, & frontiers of democracy / Keith Scartwright; Locality and the serial South / Lloyd Pratt.; The long shadow of torture in the American South / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- Masculine sentiment, racial fetishism, and same-sex desire in antebellum southern literature / Michael P. Bibler -- The Civil War and beyond. Southern affects: field and feeling in a skeptical age / Scott Romine; Not so still waters: travelers to Florida and the tropical sublime / John W. Lowe; Indian knives and color lines: Mark Twain from Hannibal to the Jim Crow raj J / Harilaos Stecopoulos; Narrative and counternarrative in The leopard's spots and the marrow of tradition / Anthony Wilson -- The bright side: African American women and the affective archive of southern racial uplift / Stephen Knadler -- Southern modernisms. "Proffered for your perusal in ring by concentric ring": the South and the world in William Faulkner's fiction / Owen Robinson; Richard Weaver, Lillian Smith, the South, and the world / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.; Arts of abjection in James Agee, Walker Evans, and Luis Bunuel / Leigh Anne Duck -- Tennessee Williams and the burden of southern sexuality studies / Gary Richards; Reimagining the South of Richard Wright: the anti-protest writing of Albert Murray, Raymond Andrews, and Ernest gaines / James W. Coleman; Letter-writing, authorship, and southern women modernists / Will Brantley -- After southern modernisms: writing in the late twentieth century and contemporary South. Nature and spirituality in contemporary Appalachian poetry / John Lang; Southern religion's sexual charge and the national imagination / Katherine Henninger; Their Confederate kinfolk: African Americans' interracial family histories / Suzanne W. Jones; Mourning, mockery, and the post-South: Lars Von Trier's Manderlay and Geraldine Brooks's March / Michael Kreyling -- Made things: structuring modernity in southern poetry / Daniel Cross Turner; Four contemporary Latina/o writers ghost the U.S. South / Maria Deguzman -- You don't have to be born there: immigration and contemporary fiction of the U.S. South / Martyn Bone; Asian Americans, racial latency, southern traces / Leslie Bow; The woundedness of southern literature, looking away / Minrose Gwin. |
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9780199767472 (hbk.) |
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