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Author:

Stecopoulos, Harry.

Title:

Reconstructing the world : Southern fictions and U.S. imperialisms, 1898-1976 / Harilaos Stecopoulos.

Publisher:

Cornell University Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

x, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Literature and history--Southern States--20th century.
Imperialism in literature.
Regionalism in literature.
Southern States--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-198) and index.

Contents:

The geography of reunion : Thomas Dixon, Charles Chesnutt, and the McKinley expansionists -- Up from empire : James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South -- "Take your geography and trace it" : W.E.B. Du Bois and the reconstruction of the South -- "Members of the whole world" : Carson McCullers's military fictions -- Mississippi on the Pacific : William Faulkner and Richard Wright in postwar Asia -- Epilogue : Alice Walker and the lost cause.

ISBN:

9780801475023 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801475023 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780801446856 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801446856 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)228371967

LCCN:

2008026509

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)