The South That Wasn't There : Postsouthern Memory and History /

Once, history and "the South" dwelt in close proximity. Representations of the South in writing and on film assumed "everybody knew" what had happened in place and time to create the South. Today, our vision of the South varies, and there is less "there there" than ever...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kreyling, Michael, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Litterature americaine > États-Unis (sud) > Histoire et critique.
Kulturelle Identität > Motiv
Kollektives Gedächtnis > Motiv
Literatur
Regionalism in literature.
Literature.
Intellectual life.
Group identity in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Litterature regionale.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
American literature > Southern States > History and criticism.
États-Unis (sud) > Vie intellectuelle.
États-Unis (sud) > Dans la litterature.
USA > Südstaaten
Southern States.
États-Unis (Sud) > Dans la litterature.
Southern States > In literature.
Southern States > Intellectual life.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: memory, culture, identity
  • "Something of an obstacle": remembering slavery in Morrison's Beloved
  • Robert Penn Warren: the real southerner and the "hypothetical negro"
  • Arms and the man: Southern honor and the memory of Vietnam
  • Haiti: phantom Southern memory in Faulkner and Madison Smartt Bell
  • Parody, memory, and copyright: the Southern memory market
  • Nostalgia, alternate history, and the future of Southern memory.

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