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Look Away! [[electronic resource] ] : The U.S. South in New World Studies



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Autore: Smith Jon Visualizza persona
Titolo: Look Away! [[electronic resource] ] : The U.S. South in New World Studies Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2004
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (535 p.)
Disciplina: 970/.0071
Soggetto topico: Regionalism - Southern States
Regionalism - Latin America
Regionalism - Caribbean Area
United States Local History
Regions & Countries - Americas
History & Archaeology
Altri autori: CohnDeborah  
PeaseDonald E  
HandleyGeorge B  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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 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
Sommario/riassunto: Examines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean.
Titolo autorizzato: Look Away  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8223-8577-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910777991703321
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Serie: New Americanists