Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies

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Look Away!

The U.S. South in New World Studies

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2004

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Examines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Jon Smith is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama.

Deborah Cohn is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction.

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“Look Away! is an important collection that expands the vocabularies and national symbol systems that scholars can deploy to think comparatively about the Americas. It is especially useful in breaking the binary between North and South that has so restricted southern literary and historical studies.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing

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Cultural Studies Cultural Theory General Cultural Theory

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities
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Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn

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1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN
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A New World Poetics of Oblivion
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George B. Handley

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Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture
52
Kirsten Silva Gruesz

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Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution
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Jane Landers

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Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity
94
J. Michael Dash

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Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier
110
Jesse Alemán

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Citizenship and Identity in the Exile Autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat
130
Steven Hunsaker

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Travel and Transference: V. S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past
150
Leigh Anne Duck

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2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION
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Things Falling Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Red Rock and The Leopard’s Spots
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Scott Romine

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This Race Which Is Not One: The ‘‘More Inextricable Compositeness’’ of William Faulkner’s South
201
John T. Matthews

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Richard Wright: From the South to Africa—and Beyond
227
Richard King

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Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination
251
Robert H. Brinkmeyer and Debra Rae Cohen

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American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas
268
Lois Parkinson Zamora

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3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA
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Wonder and the Wounds of ‘‘Southern’’ Histories
303
Stephanie Merrim

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Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes
333
Wendy B. Faris

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Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting Up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction
355
Philip Weinstein

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‘‘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
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Dane Johnson

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William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing
405
Helen Oakley

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William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s ‘‘Other’’ Tradition
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Earl Fitz

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4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH
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Embodying Greater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question
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John-Michael Rivera

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Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel
471
Vincent Pérez

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Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner
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Ilan Stavans

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Contributors
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Index
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New Americanists

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Look Away!

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities

A New World Poetics of Oblivion

Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture

Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution

Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity

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

Citizenship and Identity in the Exile Autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat

Travel and Transference: V. S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past

Things Falling Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Red Rock and The Leopard’s Spots

This Race Which Is Not One: The ‘‘More Inextricable Compositeness’’ of William Faulkner’s South

Richard Wright: From the South to Africa—and Beyond

Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination

American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas

Wonder and the Wounds of ‘‘Southern’’ Histories

Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes

Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting Up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction

‘‘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

William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing

William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s ‘‘Other’’ Tradition

Embodying Greater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question

Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel

Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner

Contributors

Index

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