Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-431) and index.
Contents:
Foundations. Academic origins of southern studies (Spotlight: I'll take my stand) / Ted Atkinson -- Antebellum literature (Spotlight: William Gilmore Simms) / Katharine A. Burnett -- Appalachian literature (Spotlight: Ron Rash) / Zackary Vernon -- The Civil War (Spotlight: Augusta Jane Evans) / Karen Tracey -- Class and economics (Spotlight: Let us now praise famous men [1941]) / David A. Davis -- Colonial writing (Spotlight: John Smith) / Dan Waldon -- Community (Spotlight: Monique Truong) / Elizabeth Gardner -- Drama (Spotlight: Tennessee Williams) / William Mark Poteet -- Film (Spotlight: Deliverance) / Robert Jackson -- Foodways (Spotlight: Rick Bragg) / Erica Abrams Locklear -- Gender (Spotlight: Sherley Anne Williams) / Michael Bibler -- The global south (Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi) / Amy K. King -- The Harlem Renaissance (Spotlight: Jean Toomer) / Ricardo A. Wilson II -- Home (Spotlight: Alice Walker) / Nagueyalti Warren -- Humor (Spotlight: Mark Twain) / John Bird -- Jim Crow and the civil rights era (Spotlight: To kill a mockingbird) / Julie Buckner Armstrong -- Local color and regionalism (Spotlight: Charles Chesnutt) / Bill Hardwig -- Modernism (Spotlight: William Faulkner) / Thomas F. Haddox -- Music (Spotlight: The country-soul triangle [Memphis-Muscle Shoals-Nashville]) / Ellie Campbell -- Native souths (Spotlight: LeAnne Howe) / Kirstin L. Squint -- Poetry and verse (Spotlight: Natasha Trethewey) / Christie Collins -- Postbellum literature (Spotlight: Thomas Nelson Page) / Christopher Bundrick -- Reconstruction and the new south (Spotlight: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper) / Sherita Johnson -- Religion (Spotlight: Flannery O'Connor) / Matt Bryant Cheney -- Science and technology (Spotlight: Walker Percy) / Doug Davis -- Sexuality (Spotlight: Kate Chopin) / Jaime Cantrell -- Slave narratives (Spotlight: Frederick Douglass) / Sandra Burr -- Southern gothic (Spotlight: Toni Morrison) / Melanie Anderson -- Southern periodical culture (Spotlight: The double dealer [1921-1926]) / Sian Round -- Wilderness south (Spotlight: James Kilgo) / Anthony Dyer Hoefer -- Touchstones. Anti-Tom literature (Spotlight: Caroline Lee Hentz) / Peter Templeton -- Asian American South (Spotlight: Ha Jin) / Suzanne Kamata -- Autobiography (Spotlight: Maya Angelou) / Matthew Sutton -- Blues (Spotlight: Langston Hughes) / Elizabeth LeRud -- Children's Literature (Spotlight: Mildred Taylor) / Laura Hakala -- Classical music (Spotlight: James Weldon Johnson) / Tamyln Avery -- Cold War literature (Spotlight: Ralph Ellison) / Atsushi Marutani -- Cosmopolitanism (Spotlight: Edgar Allan Poe) / Kristopher Mecholsky -- Creolization (Spotlight: George Washington Cable) / Amanda M. Capelli -- Detective and mystery fiction (Spotlight: Margaret Maron) / John Jebb -- Early contact souths (Spotlight: La Florida) / E. Thomson Shields, Jr. -- Ecocriticism and the environment (Spotlight: Wendell Berry) / Sarah-Marie Horning -- Feminism (Spotlight: Lee Smith) / Monica Carol Miller -- Grit lit (Spotlight: Larry Brown) / Peter Jay Ingrao -- Hispanophone literatures (Spotlight: Nineteenth-century Hispanophone periodical poetry) / Ayendy Bonifacio -- Ireland and the U.S. South (Spotlight: Lafcadio Hearn) / Jessica L. Martell -- The lost cause myth (Spotlight: Gone with the wind) / Sean Heuston -- Masculinity (Spotlight: Robert Penn Warren) / Wes Berry -- Migration (Spotlight: Gayl Jones) / Joanna Davis-McElligatt -- New southern studies (Spotlight: Kiese Laymon) / Kathryn McKee -- Nostalgia (Spotlight: Peter Taylor) / W. Matthew J. Simmons -- Old Southwestern humor (Spotlight: Johnson Jones Hooper) / John Miller -- Plantation fiction (Spotlight: John Pendleton Kennedy) / Christopher Bundrick -- Postbellum slave narratives (Spotlight: Booker T. Washington) / Adam Yeich -- Pre-invasion Indigenous texts (Spotlight: Cherokee oral stories) / Eric Gary Anderson -- The proslavery argument (Spotlight: James Henry Hammond) / Todd Hagstette -- Southern diarists (Spotlight: Mary Chesnut) / Julia Nitz -- Television (Spotlight: Ava DuVernay, Queen Sugar) / Stephanie Rountree -- The transatlantic south (Spotlight: Katherine Anne Porter) / Joseph Kuhn -- Virginia before Jefferson (Spotlight: William Byrd II) / Amanda Louise Johnson -- Women's slave narratives (Spotlight: Harriet Ann Jacobs) / Delphine Louis-Dimitrov -- Trajectories. Activism (Spotlight: Toni Cade Bambara) / Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder -- Affect (Spotlight: Eudora Welty) / Jill Fennell -- Afrofuturism (Spotlight: W.E.B. Du Bois) / Samanda Robinson -- Border souths (Spotlight: Cormac McCarthy) / Sally Ann Schutz -- The carceral south (Spotlight: Ernest Gaines) / Elizabeth Steeby -- Comics in the U.S. south (Spotlight: Nate Powell) / Matthew Teutsch -- Disability studies (Spotlight: Carson McCullers) / Bruce Henderson -- Environmental refugees (Spotlight: Moira Crone) / Zackary Vernon -- The freak south (Spotlight: Erskine Caldwell) / Erik Kline -- The Gulf south (Spotlight: Jesmyn Ward) / Jim Coby -- Hip hop and the south (Spotlight: Atlanta hip hop) / Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis -- Lesbian south (Spotlight: Dorothy Allison) / Jamie Harker -- Mill Town literature (Spotlight: Wiley Cash) / Jimmy Dean Smith -- Multiethnic souths (Spotlight: Lan Cao's Monkey bridge) / Amy Schmidt -- Neo-slave narratives (Spotlight: Colson Whitehead) / Allison Harris -- New media (Spotlight: Blake Hausman) / Gina Caison -- The Ozarks (Spotlight: Donald Harington) / Joe Farmer -- Plantationocene (Spotlight: Zora Neale Hurston) / Sandra Burr -- Queer souths (Spotlight: Randall Kenan) / Eric Solomon -- Southern cityscapes (Spotlight: George Saunders) / William Murray -- Southern hyperboles (Spotlight: Lillian Smith) / Michał Choiński -- Southern pirates (Spotlight: Joseph Holt Ingraham) / Kathleen Crosby -- The speculative south (Spotlight: Octavia Butler) / Ellie Campbell -- Trans and non-binary souths (Spotlight: Meredith Russo) / Phillip "Pip" Gordon -- Trauma (Spotlight: William Styron) / Jean W. Cash -- Undead souths (Spotlight: Dead Bird)s / Eric Gary Anderson -- Understanding southern studies and cultural studies / Jennie Lightweis-Goff.
Summary:
"Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, transatlantic or global studies, multiethnic studies, immigration studies, and gender studies, this volume presents a multi-faceted conversation around a wide variety of subjects in U.S. southern literary studies. The Companion will offer a comprehensive overview of the southern literary studies field, including a chronological history from the U.S. colonial era to the present day and theoretical touchstones, while also introducing new methods of reconceiving region and the U.S. South as inherently interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional. The volume will therefore be an invaluable tool for instructors, scholars, students, and members of the general public who are interested in exploring the field further but will also suggest new methods of engaging with regional studies, American studies, American literary studies, and cultural studies."--Page [4] of cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.