The New Southern Studies – serie
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Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
Häftad, 2007
528 kr
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This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. Many negative stereotypes of black men—often contradictory ones—have emerged from the ongoing historical traumas initiated by slavery. …
The Southern Hospitality Myth
Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory
Inbunden, 2017
1173 kr
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Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the social habit of …
Finding Purple America
The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
Av Jon Smith
Inbunden, 2013
1207 kr
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The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields.The old …
American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
Av Deborah Barker, Kathryn McKee
Inbunden, 2011
1441 kr
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Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.In their introduction, Deborah …
The Nation's Region
Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism
Häftad, 2009
607 kr
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How could liberalism and apartheid coexist for decades in our country, as they did during the first half of the twentieth century? This study looks at works by such writers as Thomas Dixon, Erskine Caldwell, Zora Neale Hurston, William Faulkner, and Ralph Ellison to show how representations of time …
Grounded Globalism
How the U.S. South Embraces the World
Häftad, 2010
479 kr
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The world is flat? Maybe not, says this paradigm-shifting study of globalism's impact on a region legendarily resistant to change. The U.S. South, long defined in terms of its differences with the U.S. North, is moving out of this national and oppositional frame of reference into one that is more …
Southern Civil Religions
Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era
Inbunden, 2011
1180 kr
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy. Historians have used the idea of civil religion to explain how this powerful memory gave the white South a unique sense of …
American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
Av Kathryn McKee, Deborah Barker m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
589 kr
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Employing innovations in media studies, southern cultural studies, and approaches to the global South, this collection of essays examines aspects of the southern imaginary in American cinema and offers fresh insight into the evolving field of southern film studies.In their introduction, Deborah …
Apples and Ashes
Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
Inbunden, 2012
1451 kr
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Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures, …
Reconstructing the Native South
American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause
Inbunden, 2012
1348 kr
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In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. South—literature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded Removal and have maintained ties with their southeastern homelands. In so doing Taylor advances …
Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs
Av Tess Chakkalakal, Kenneth W. Warren
Inbunden, 2013
1534 kr
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Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872–1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his …
Keywords for Southern Studies
Av Scott Romine, Jennifer Rae Greeson
Inbunden, 2016
1720 kr
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In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to …
Reconstructing the Native South
American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause
Häftad, 2012
532 kr
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In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. South—literature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded Removal and have maintained ties with their southeastern homelands. In so doing Taylor advances …
Southern Civil Religions
Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era
Häftad, 2011
460 kr
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause gave white southerners a new collective identity anchored in the stories, symbols, and rituals of the defeated Confederacy. Historians have used the idea of civil religion to explain how this powerful memory gave the white South a unique sense of …
Apples and Ashes
Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
Häftad, 2012
585 kr
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Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history of the Civil War South. The product of extensive archival research, it tells an expansive story about a nation struggling to write itself into existence. Confederate literature was in intimate conversation with other contemporary literary cultures, …
Reading for the Body
The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985
Av Jay Watson
Inbunden, 2012
1469 kr
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Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies has been overidealized and dominated by intellectual history for too long. In Reading for the Body, he calls for the field to be rematerialized and grounded in an awareness of the human body as the site where ideas, including ideas about the U.S. …
Latining America
Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies
Inbunden, 2013
1261 kr
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With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names “Latinities.” Milian’s innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed …
Latining America
Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies
Häftad, 2013
508 kr
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With Latining America, Claudia Milian proposes that the economies of blackness, brownness, and dark brownness summon a new grammar for Latino/a studies that she names “Latinities.” Milian’s innovative study argues that this ensnared economy of meaning startles the typical reading practices deployed …
Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways
Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
Inbunden, 2013
1544 kr
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“We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America’s institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, …
Sounding the Color Line
Music and Race in the Southern Imagination
Av Erich Nunn
Inbunden, 2015
1290 kr
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Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. Yet, though we may speak of white or black music, rock or rap, sounds constantly leak …
Keywords for Southern Studies
Av Scott Romine, Scott Romine m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
701 kr
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In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to …
The Signifying Eye
Seeing Faulkner's Art
Av Candace Waid
Häftad, 2017
589 kr
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A bold book, built of close readings, striking in its range and depth, The Signifying Eye shows Faulkner's art take shape in sweeping arcs of social, labor, and aesthetic history. Beginning with long-unpublished works (his childhood sketches and his hand-drawn and hand-illustrated play The …
Navigating Souths
Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region
Av Michele Grigsby Coffey, Jodi Skipper
Inbunden, 2017
1201 kr
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The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has been going on for some time. Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an advanced understanding of the historical, social, …
Where the New World Is
Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales
Av Martyn Bone
Inbunden, 2018
1218 kr
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Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of …
Red States
Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies
Av Gina Caison
Inbunden, 2018
1060 kr
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Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.S. South. Gina Caison argues that popular misconceptions of Native American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing how non-Native audiences …
Borges's Poe
The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America
Av Emron Esplin
Häftad, 2019
584 kr
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Edgar Allan Poe’s image and import shifted during the twentieth century, and this shift is clearly connected to the work of three writers from the Río de la Plata region of South America—Uruguayan Horacio Quiroga and Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. In Borges’s Poe, Emron Esplin …
The Southern Hospitality Myth
Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory
Häftad, 2019
508 kr
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Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons for its perseverance often seem unclear. Anthony Szczesiul looks at how and why we have taken something so particular as the social habit of …
The Whole Machinery
The Rural Modern in Cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946
Inbunden, 2019
1123 kr
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A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins. Expanding on Walter Benjamin’s notion of die Moderne, The Whole Machinery explores representations of people and places, objects and occasions, that reverse that trajectory, demonstrating how modernizing agents …
Look Abroad, Angel
Thomas Wolfe and the Geographies of Longing
Inbunden, 2020
1060 kr
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Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938) was one of the most influential southern writers, widely considered to rival his contemporary, William Faulkner—who believed Wolfe to be one of the greatest talents of their generation. His novels—including Look Homeward, Angel (1929); Of …
Where the New World Is
Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales
Av Martyn Bone
Häftad, 2020
679 kr
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Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of …
