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Look away! : the U.S. South in New World studies / / edited with an introduction by Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn
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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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Southern States Study and teaching |
Southern States Historiography | |
Latin America Study and teaching | |
Latin America Historiography | |
Caribbean Area Study and teaching | |
Caribbean Area Historiography | |
Altri autori: |
SmithJon <1963->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : uncanny hybridities / Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn -- New world poetics of oblivion / George B. Handley -- Delta Desterrados : antebellum New Orleans and new world print culture / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- Slave resistance on the southeastern frontier : fugitives, maroons, and banditti in the age of revolution / Jane Landers -- Martinique/Mississippi : Edouard Glissant and relational insularity / J. Michael Dash -- Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in drag : the narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban woman and Confederate soldier / Jesse Aleman -- Citizenship and identity in the exile autobiographies of Gustavo Perez Firmat / Steven Hunsaker -- Travel and transference : V. S. Naipaul and the plantation past / Leigh Anne Duck -- Things falling apart : the postcolonial condition of Red Rock and The Leopard's Spots / Scott Romine -- This race which is not one : the "more inextricable compositeness" of William Faulkner's South / John T. Matthews -- Richard Wright : from the South to Africa-- and beyond / Richard King -- Forward into the past : California and the contemporary white southern imagination / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. and Debra Rae Cohen -- American films/American fantasies : moviegoing and regional identity in literature of the Americas / Lois Parkinson Zamora -- Wonder and the wounds of "southern" histories / Stephanie Merrim -- Southern economies of excess : narrative expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes / Wendy B. Faris -- Cant matter/must matter : setting up the loom in Faulknerian and postcolonial fiction / Philip Weinstein -- "Wherein the South differs from the North" : tracing the noncosmopolitan aesthetic in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude / Dane Johnson -- William Faulkner and the Cold War : the politics of cultural marketing / Helen Oakley -- William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil : the American South in Latin American literature's "other" tradition / Earl Fitz -- Embodying greater Mexico : Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the reconstruction of the Mexican question / John-Michael Rivera -- Remembering the hacienda : history and memory in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero : a Historical Novel / Vincent Perez -- ; Posdata, Beyond translation : Jorge Luis Borges revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans. |
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 |
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