Undead Souths : The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture /

Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Walking Dead. As Undead Souths reveals, physical emanations of southern undeadness are legion, but undeadness also appears in symbolic, psychological, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Turner, Daniel Cross (Editor ), Hagood, Taylor, 1975- (Editor ), Anderson, Eric Gary, 1960- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature.
English.
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Motion pictures.
Literature and society.
Gothic revival (Literature)
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
Litterature et societe > États-Unis (Sud)
Litterature frenetique > États-Unis (Sud)
Literature and society > Southern States.
Gothic revival (Literature) > Southern States.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
Southern States > In motion pictures.
Southern States > In literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Introduction; 1. Confederacies of Undead Imagination: Going South through Wastelands to Jonestown; 2. The Fall of the House of Po' Sandy: Poe, Chesnutt, and Southern Undeadness; 3. What Remains Where: Civil War Poetry and Photography across 150 Years; 4. Gray Ghosts: Remediating the Confederate Undead; 5. Melville's Zombies, North and South; 6. Topographical Ghosts: The Archival Architecture of Old New Orleans; 7. Faulkner's Doom: The Undead Inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha; 8. Faulkner's Deathways: The Race and Space of Mourning
  • 9. Of Flesh and Bones: Incarnations of the Silenced Past in William Faulkner's and Erskine Caldwell's Early Southern Gothic Short Stories10. Monstrous Plantations: White Zombie and the Horrors of Whiteness; 11. When Dead Men Talk: Emmett Till, Southern Pasts, and Present Demands; 12. Second Life: Salvage Operations in Cormac McCarthy's Undead South; 13. Last Roads Taken: Robert Frost, Cormac McCarthy, and Dying Worlds; 14. Undead Genres/Living Locales: Gothic Legacies in The True Meaning of Pictures and Winter's Bone
  • 15. Burying the (Un)Dead and Healing the Living: Choctaw Women's Power in LeAnne Howe's Novels16. The Indigenous Uncanny: Spectral Genealogies in LeAnne Howe's Fiction; 17. Crossin' the Log: Death, Regionality, and Race in Jeremy Love's Bayou; 18. "Life Refusing to End": The Transformative Gothic in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night; 19. "More Dead Than Living": Randall Kenan's Monstrous Community; 20. Going to Ground: The Undead in Contemporary Southern Popular Culture Media and Writing; Making Darkness Visible: An Afterword and an Appreciation; WORKS CITED; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C
  • DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

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