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

• Autore: Smith Jon
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8223-8577-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815729803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: New Americanists