South to a New Place

Taking Albert Murray's South to a Very Old Place as a starting point, contributors to this exciting collection continue the work of critically and creatively remapping the South through their freewheeling studies of southern literature and culture. Appraising representations of the South within a context that is postmodern, diverse, widely inclusive, and international, the essays present multiple ways of imagining the South and examine both places and old landscapes in an attempt to tie the mythic southern balloon down to earth. In his foreword, an insightful discussion of numerous Souths and the ways they are perceived, Richard Gray explains one of the key goals of the book: to open up to scrutiny the literary and cultural practice that has come to be known as regionalism. Part I, Surveying the Territory, theorizes definitions of and region, and includes an analysis of southern literary regionalism from the 1930s to the present and an exploration of southern popular culture. In Mapping the Region, essayists examine different representations of rural landscapes and small towns, cities and suburbs, as well as liminal zones in which immigrants make their homes. Reflecting the contributors' transatlantic perspective, Making Global Connections challenges notions of southern distinctiveness by reading the region through the comparative frameworks of Southern Italy, East Germany, Latin America, and the United Kingdom and via a range of texts and contexts, from early reconciliation romances to Faulkner's fictions about race to the more recent parody of southern mythmaking, Alice Randall's The Wind Done Gone. Together, these essays explore the roles that economic, racial, and ideological tensions have played in the formation of southern identity through varying representations of locality, moving regionalism toward a new place in southern studies

Anarchism and Radical Politics · Cultural History and Identity Formation · History

• Rewriting Billie and Asserting Rhetorical Sovereignty in Linda Hogan's Power

  Helen Makhdoumian, Helen Makhdoumian Helen Makhdoumian•Studies in American Indian…•2016

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• Dangerously Smooth Spaces in Cynthia Shearer’s The Celestial Jukebox

  Karyn H Anderson•MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…•2012

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• "Bled In, Letter by Letter"

  D Y Kim•American Literary History•2009

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• Reimagining the Southern Gothic

  Alaina Kaus•MELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…•2017

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• Central American-Americanness, Latino/a Studies, and the Global South

  Milian Milian•The Global South•2011

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• First Nations and Native Souths on Both Sides of the 49 th Parallel

  McCall McCall, Reder Reder et al.•The Global South•2015

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• Remapping the 38 th Parallel in the Global South

  Cha Cha•The Global South•2009

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• Southern Like US

  Sharon Monteith•The Global South•2007

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• Everything the World Turns On

  Jesse Peters, Jesse Peters Jesse Peters•The American Indian Quarterly•2013

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