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

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Look Away!

The U.S. South in New World Studies

Edited by: Jon Smith , Deborah Cohn and Donald E. Pease
With contributions by: George B. Handley

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2004

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New Americanists

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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

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN
A New World Poetics of Oblivion George B. Handley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture Kirsten Silva Gruesz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	52
Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution Jane Landers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	80
Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity J. Michael Dash Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	94
Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier Jesse Alemán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	110
Citizenship and Identity in the Exile Autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat Steven Hunsaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	130
Travel and Transference: V. S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past Leigh Anne Duck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	150
2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION
Things Falling Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Red Rock and The Leopard’s Spots Scott Romine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
This Race Which Is Not One: The ‘‘More Inextricable Compositeness’’ of William Faulkner’s South John T. Matthews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Richard Wright: From the South to Africa—and Beyond Richard King Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination Robert H. Brinkmeyer and Debra Rae Cohen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas Lois Parkinson Zamora Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	268
3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA
Wonder and the Wounds of ‘‘Southern’’ Histories Stephanie Merrim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes Wendy B. Faris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	333
Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting Up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction Philip Weinstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
‘‘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 Dane Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	383
William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing Helen Oakley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	405
William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s ‘‘Other’’ Tradition Earl Fitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	419
4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH
Embodying Greater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question John-Michael Rivera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel Vincent Pérez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	471
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Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner Ilan Stavans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	495
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	505
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	511

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