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Smith Jon |
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Titolo |
Look Away! [[electronic resource] ] : The U.S. South in New World Studies |
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Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (535 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CohnDeborah |
PeaseDonald E |
HandleyGeorge B |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Regionalism - Southern States |
Regionalism - Latin America |
Regionalism - Caribbean Area |
United States Local History |
Regions & Countries - Americas |
History & Archaeology |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities; 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN; A New World Poetics of Oblivion; Delta Desterrados:Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture; Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution; Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity; Crossing the Mason-Dixon Linein Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier; Citizenship and Identity in the Exile Autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat |
Travel and Transference:V. S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION; Things Falling Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Red Rock and The Leopard's Spots; This Race Which Is NotOne: The ''More Inextricable Compositeness''of William Faulkner's South; Richard Wright: From the South to Africa-and Beyond; Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination; American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and |
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Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas; 3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA; Wonder and the Wounds of ''Southern'' Histories |
Southern Economies of Excess:Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos FuentesCant Matter/Must Matter:Setting Up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction; ''Wherein the South Differs from the North'': Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude; William Faulkner and the Cold War:The Politics of Cultural Marketing; William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature's ''Other'' Tradition |
4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA:GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTHEmbodyingGreater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question; Remembering the Hacienda:History and Memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh's Caballero: A Historical Novel; Postdata: Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Examines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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