Swamp Souths : Literary and Cultural Ecologies /

""Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies" expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States-the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wilson, Anthony, 1975- (Editor ), Hagood, Taylor, 1975- (Editor ), Anderson, Eric Gary, 1960- (Editor ), Squint, Kirstin L., 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Swamps in literature.
Swamps.
Swamp ecology.
Ecology.
American literature.
Écologie des marecages > États-Unis (Sud)
Marecages > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Marecages > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud)
Swamp ecology > Southern States.
Swamps > Southern States > History.
Swamps > Social aspects > Southern States.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions environnementales.
Southern States > Environmental conditions.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Mapping swamp souths / Kirstin L. Squint [and 3 others]
  • I : Terrebonne-Atchafalaya Basin. On the edge in the wetlands ; the importance of gestural markings in Beyonce's Lemonade and Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the southern wild / Rebecca Mark
  • "What you gonna tell the spirit?" : Cajun and indigenous activist art in Louisiana swamps / Kirstin L. Squint
  • The swampy sound : the politics of identity in swamp music / Josh-Wade Ferguson
  • A marriage made in hell : antebellum anxieties, contemporary ecoculture, and swamp zombies! / Peter Jay Ingrao
  • II : Okefenokee. Dark waters : Vereen Bell's Swamp water and the tropical sublime / John Wharton Lowe
  • III : Mississippi River delta. Summoning swamp songs : decolonizing creole-indigenous textual tributaries / Rain Prud'Homme-Cranford
  • Omar's bayou : the jazz origin myth of Treat it gentle / Matthew D. Sutton
  • Translating Dumont de Montigny's Frog : or, locating the Memoires historiques sur la Louisiane in an ecology of American degeneracy / Mathew E. Suazo
  • "Nothing of the human remained" : the slave swamp in Henry Clay Lewis and George Washington Cable / Joseph Kuhn
  • "A whole mystery of life opened up" : childhood, innocence, and the swamp in Eudora Welty's Delta wedding / Hannah Godwin
  • IV : Everglades. Muck, memory, regeneration : abject histories in Hurston and Du Bois / Mitch Therieau
  • Alligators and Indian chiefs : ecological and familial reclamation in Karen Russell's Swamplandia! / Keely Byars-Nichols
  • V : Great Dismal. Staging the Dismal swamp during the Civil War : Pepper's ghost at the Richmond Theatre / William Tynes Cowan
  • Unraveling slavery's order in the nineteenth-century southern swamp / Lauren E. Lafauci
  • Digging up the past : Randall Kenan's Let the dead bury their dead and the suppressed histories of the US south / Susan Thananopavarn
  • VI : Beyond swamp souths. Cormac McCarthy's "bogfolk" : apocalypse, fertility rites, and Irish history in The road / Jessica Martell and Zackary Vernon
  • Morass and the old man : patriarchy, origin, legality, alligators, swamp / Taylor Hagood
  • Afterword / Anthony Wilson.

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