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Author:

Soto-Crespo, Ramón E. author.

Title:

The white trash menace and hemispheric fiction / Ramón E. Soto-Crespo.

Publisher:

The Ohio State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xvi, 195 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm

Subject:

Spanish American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Poor whites in literature.
Latin American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Working class whites in literature.
Whites in literature.
Comparative literature--Latin American and American.
Comparative literature--American and Latin American.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: White trash, decapitalization, and literary circulation -- Faulkner's "Porto Rico": circulation, white trash, and the Caribbean -- Circum-Atlantic trash: despised forms and postwar Caribbean fiction -- Trash travels: white cockroaches in circum-Atlantic literature -- Archipelagoes of white debt: indentured trash in circum-Atlantic fiction -- Hemispheric trash: a cultural paradox -- Appendix: Writers of trash fiction.

Summary:

"Traces the transnational circulation of white trash characters and fiction in pulp fiction and canonical literatures of the Americas"-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0814214215
9780814214213
081425568X
9780814255681

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1114474221

LCCN:

2019035211

Locations:

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