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  South to a new place : region, literature, culture

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  Publisher:

  Louisiana State University Press,

  Pub date:

  c2002.

  Physical desc:

  xxiii, 394 p. ;

  ISBN:

  0807128236

  Copy info:

  1 copy available in Shelved by call number, A-L 4th Floor, N-Z 3rd Floor.
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  ISBN:

  0807128236 (alk. paper)

  ISBN:

  0807128406 (pbk. : alk. paper)

  Title:

  South to a new place : region, literature, culture / edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith ; foreword by Richard Gray.

  Publication info:

  Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2002.

  Physical descrip:

  xxiii, 394 p. ; 24 cm.

  Bibliography note:

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  Contents:

  Foreword: Inventing communities, imagining places: some thoughts on southern self-fashioning / Richard Gray -- Introduction: South to new places / Sharon Monteith, Suzanne W. Jones -- PART I. SURVEYING THE TERRITORY -- Where is southern literature? The practice of place in a postsouthern age / Scott Romine -- Dismantling the monolith: Southern places - past, present, and future / Barbara Ladd -- Race and intimacy: Albert Murray's South to a very old place / Carolyn M. Jones -- Southern culture on the skids: punk, retro, narcissism, and the burden of southern history / Jon Smith -- Larry Brown's Joe and the uses and abuses of the "region" concept / Paul Lyons -- PART II. MAPPING THE REGION -- I'll take my land: contemporary southern agrarians / Suzanne W. Jones -- Toni Morrison's revisionary "nature writing": Song of Solomon and the blasted pastoral / Wes Berry -- Native American literature, ecocriticism, and the South: the inaccessible worlds of Linda Hogan's Power / Eric Gary Anderson -- Queer locations, queer transformations: Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits / Robert McRuer -- Into the suburbs: Richard Ford's sportswriter novels and the place of southern fiction / Matthew Guinn -- Placing the postsouthern "international city": Atlanta in Tom Wolfe's A man in full / Martyn Bone -- Outsiders with inside information: the Vietnamese in the fiction of the contemporary American South / Maureen Ryan -- Postmodern southern vacation: vacation advertising, globalization, and southern regionalism / Amy J. Elias -- PART III. MAKING GLOBAL CONNECTIONS -- Italy and the United States: the politics and poetics of the "southern problem" / Michael Kreyling -- North, south, east, west: constructing region in southern and East German literature / Christine Gerhardt -- "Of the same blood as this America and its history": William Faulkner and Spanish American literature / Deborah Cohn -- South and Britain: Celtic cultural connections / Helen Taylor -- Afterword: South of the mind / Diane Roberts

  Subject term:

  American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

  Geographic term:

  Southern States--Intellectual life.

  Geographic term:

  Southern States--In literature.

  Added author:

  Jones, Suzanne Whitmore.

  Added author:

  Monteith, Sharon.

  Series:

  Southern literary studies.

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ISBN:

0807128236 (alk. paper)

ISBN:

0807128406 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Title:

South to a new place : region, literature, culture / edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith ; foreword by Richard Gray.

Publication info:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2002.

Physical descrip:

xxiii, 394 p. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Foreword: Inventing communities, imagining places: some thoughts on southern self-fashioning / Richard Gray -- Introduction: South to new places / Sharon Monteith, Suzanne W. Jones -- PART I. SURVEYING THE TERRITORY -- Where is southern literature? The practice of place in a postsouthern age / Scott Romine -- Dismantling the monolith: Southern places - past, present, and future / Barbara Ladd -- Race and intimacy: Albert Murray's South to a very old place / Carolyn M. Jones -- Southern culture on the skids: punk, retro, narcissism, and the burden of southern history / Jon Smith -- Larry Brown's Joe and the uses and abuses of the "region" concept / Paul Lyons -- PART II. MAPPING THE REGION -- I'll take my land: contemporary southern agrarians / Suzanne W. Jones -- Toni Morrison's revisionary "nature writing": Song of Solomon and the blasted pastoral / Wes Berry -- Native American literature, ecocriticism, and the South: the inaccessible worlds of Linda Hogan's Power / Eric Gary Anderson -- Queer locations, queer transformations: Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits / Robert McRuer -- Into the suburbs: Richard Ford's sportswriter novels and the place of southern fiction / Matthew Guinn -- Placing the postsouthern "international city": Atlanta in Tom Wolfe's A man in full / Martyn Bone -- Outsiders with inside information: the Vietnamese in the fiction of the contemporary American South / Maureen Ryan -- Postmodern southern vacation: vacation advertising, globalization, and southern regionalism / Amy J. Elias -- PART III. MAKING GLOBAL CONNECTIONS -- Italy and the United States: the politics and poetics of the "southern problem" / Michael Kreyling -- North, south, east, west: constructing region in southern and East German literature / Christine Gerhardt -- "Of the same blood as this America and its history": William Faulkner and Spanish American literature / Deborah Cohn -- South and Britain: Celtic cultural connections / Helen Taylor -- Afterword: South of the mind / Diane Roberts

Subject term:

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.

Geographic term:

Southern States--Intellectual life.

Geographic term:

Southern States--In literature.

Added author:

Jones, Suzanne Whitmore.

Added author:

Monteith, Sharon.

Series:

Southern literary studies.