Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities 1
5. 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN
6. A New World Poetics of Oblivion 21
7. Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture 52
8. Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution 80
9. Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity 94
10. Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier 110
11. Citizenship and Identity in the Exile Autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat 130
12. Travel and Transference: V. S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past 150
13. 2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION
14. Things Falling Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Red Rock and The Leopard’s Spots 171
15. This Race Which Is Not One: The ‘‘More Inextricable Compositeness’’ of William Faulkner’s South 201
16. Richard Wright: From the South to Africa—and Beyond 227
17. Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination 251
18. American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas 268
19. 3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA
20. Wonder and the Wounds of ‘‘Southern’’ Histories 303
21. Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes 333
22. Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting Up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction 355
23. ‘‘Wherein the South Di√ers from the North’’: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude 383
24. William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing 405
25. William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s ‘‘Other’’ Tradition 419
26. 4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH
27. Embodying Greater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question 447
28. Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel 471
29. POSDATA
30. Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner 495
31. Contributors 505
32. Index 511