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Where the new world is : literature about the U.S. South at global scales /
"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 cours...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | New southern studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Introduction: The transnational turn in the South
- The extended South of black folk: intraregional and transnational migrant labor in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston
- Transnational/intertextual migrations and U.S. Southern, Danish, and English "folk" identities in Nella Larsen's fiction
- Downsouth, upsouth, global South: migration and the "new world" in John Oliver Killens's writing
- The North-South axis of race, class, and migration in Russell Banks's fiction
- Workings of the spirit, spirit of the workers: migration, labor, and the extended Caribbean in Erna Brodber's Louisiana
- Neoslavery, immigrant labor, and casino capitalism in Cynthia Shearer's The celestial jukebox
- Southern transpacific: narratives of Asian immigration, 1965-2015
- Epilogue: Transnational American studies with "the South": Morrison, Matthiessen, Eggers, and lalami.