The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South

Fred Hobson is Professor of English and Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of, among other works, Tell About the South: The Southern Rage to Explain (LSU, l983), Mencken: A Life (Random House, 1994), But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative (LSU, 1999), and The Silencing of Emily Mullen and Other Essays (LSU, 2005). He edits the Southern Literary Studies series at Louisiana State University Press and is co-editor, with Minrose Gwin, of the Southern Literary Journal. Barbara Ladd is Professor of English at Emory University. She is the author of Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner (LSU 1996) and Resisting History: Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Eudora Welty (LSU 2007).

Including excellent bibliographies, this handbook demonstrates the achievement and the promise of the new Southern studies.

• Contributors ; Introduction ; PART I: CONTACT TO THE CIVIL WAR ; 1. Literary and Textual Histories of the Native South. Eric Gary Anderson ; 2. Before Hypodescent: Whitening Equations in South America and the American South. Ruth Hill ; 3. The Dying Confession of Joseph Hare (1818): Transatlantic Highwaymen and Southern Outlaws in the Antebellum South. Thomas Ruys Smith ; 4. Jackson's Villes, Squares, & Frontiers of Democracy. Keith Cartwright ; 5. Locality and the Serial South. Lloyd Pratt ; 6. The Long Shadow of Torture in the American South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage ; 7. Masculine Sentiment, Racial Fetishism, and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum Southern Literature. Michael P. Bibler ; PART II: THE CIVIL WAR AND BEYOND ; 8. Southern Affects: Field and Feeling in a Skeptical Age. Scott Romine ; 9. Not So Still Waters: Travelers to Florida and the Tropical Sublime. John W. Lowe ; 10. Indian Knives and Color Lines: Mark Twain from Hannibal to the Jim Crow Raj. Harilaos Stecopoulos ; 11. Narrative and Counternarrative in The Leopard's Spots and The Marrow of Tradition. Anthony Wilson ; 12. The Bright Side: African American Women and the Affective Archive of Southern Racial Uplift. Stephen Knadler ; PART III: SOUTHERN MODERNISMS ; 13. " Proffered for your perusal in ring by concentric ring": The South and the World in William Faulkner's Fiction. Owen Robinson ; 14. Richard Weaver, Lillian Smith, the South, and the World. Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. ; 15. Arts of Abjection in James Agee, Walker Evans, and Luis Bunuel. Leigh Anne Duck ; 16. Tennessee Williams and the Burden of Southern Sexuality Studies. Gary Richards ; 17. Reimagining the South of Richard Wright: The Anti-Protest Writing of Albert Murray, Raymond Andrews, and Ernest Gaines. James W..Coleman ; 18. Letter-Writing, Authorship, and Southern Women Modernists. Will Brantley ; PART IV: AFTER SOUTHERN MODERNISMS: WRITING IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH ; 19. Nature and Spirituality in Contemporary Appalachian Poetry. John Lang ; 20. Southern Religion's Sexual Charge and the National Imagination. Katherine Henninger ; 21. Their Confederate Kinfolk: African Americans' Interracial Family Histories. Suzanne W. Jones ; 22. Mourning, Mockery, and the Post-South: Lars von Trier's Manderlay and Geraldine Brooks's March. Michael Kreyling ; 23. Made Things: Structuring Modernity in Southern Poetry. Daniel Cross Turner ; 24. Four Contemporary Latina/o Writers Ghost the U.S. South. Maria DeGuzman ; 25. You Don't Have to Be Born There: Immigration and Contemporary Fiction of the U. S.. South. Martyn Bone ; 26. Asian Americans, Racial Latency, Southern Traces. Leslie Bow ; 27. The Woundedness of Southern Literature, Looking Away. Minrose Gwin