Look Away!

Jon Smith

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Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States-including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade-are common to most of the Americas, Look Away! points to postcolonial studies as perhaps the best perspective from which to comprehend the U.S. South. At the same time it shows how, as part of the United States, the South-both center and margin, victor and defeated, and empire and colony-complicates ideas of the postcolonial. The twenty-two essays in this comparative, interdisciplinary collection rethink southern U.S. identity, race, and the differences and commonalities between the cultural productions and imagined communities of the U.S. South and Latin America.Look Away! presents work by respected scholars in comparative literature, American studies, and Latin American studies. The contributors analyze how writers-including the Martinican Edouard Glissant, the Cuban-American Gustavo Perez Firmat, and the Trinidad-born, British V. S. Naipaul-have engaged with the southern United States. They explore William Faulkner's role in Latin American thought and consider his work in relation to that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Many essays re-examine major topics in southern U.S. culture-such as race, slavery, slave resistance, and the legacies of the past-through the lens of postcolonial theory and postmodern geography. Others discuss the South in relation to the U.S.-Mexico border. Throughout the volume, the contributors consistently reconceptualize U.S. southern culture in a way that acknowledges its postcolonial status without diminishing its distinctiveness.Contributors. Jesse Aleman, Bob Brinkmeyer, Debra Cohen, Deborah Cohn, Michael Dash, Leigh Anne Duck, Wendy Faris, Earl Fitz, George Handley, Steve Hunsaker, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Dane Johnson, Richard King, Jane Landers, John T. Matthews, Stephanie Merrim, Helen Oakley, Vincent Perez, John-Michael Rivera, Scott Romine, Jon Smith, Ilan Stavans, Philip Weinstein, Lois Parkinson Zamora

Sujets

• Latin America
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Duke University Press
• Date de parution: 21 juillet 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780822385776
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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T H E U . S . S O U T H I N N E W W O R L D S T U D I E S

Edited with an Introduction by Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments xi H

jon smith and deborah cohn, Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities 1 H

1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN

george b. handley,A New World Poetics of Oblivion 25 H

kirsten silva gruesz,DeltaDesterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture 52 H

jane landers,Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution 80 H

j. michael dash,Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity 94 H

jesse alemán,Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier 110 H

steven hunsaker,Citizenship and Identity in the Exile Autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat 130 H

leigh anne duck,Travel and Transference: V. S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past 150 H

2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION

scott romine,Things Falling Apart: The Postcolonial Condition ofRed RockandThe Leopard’s Spots 175 H

john t. matthews,This Race Which Is Not One: The ‘‘More Inextricable Compositeness’’ of William Faulkner’s South 201 H

richard king,Richard Wright: From the South to Africa—and Beyond 227 H

robert h. brinkmeyer jr. and debra rae cohen,Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination 251 H

lois parkinson zamora,American Films/ American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas 268 H

3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA

stephanie merrim,Wonder and the Wounds of ‘‘Southern’’ Histories 311 H

wendy b. faris,Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes 333 H

philip weinstein,Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting Up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction 355 H

dane johnson,‘‘Wherein the South Di√ers from the North’’: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’sAbsalom, Absalom!and Gabriel García Márquez’sOne Hundred Years of Solitude 383 H

helen oakley,William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing 405 H

earl fitz,William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s ‘‘Other’’ Tradition 419 H

4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH

john-michael rivera,Embodying Greater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question 451 H

vincent pérez,Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’sCaballero: A Historical Novel 471 H

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ilan stavans,Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner 495 H

Contributors 505 H

Index 511 H