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Title:

Look away! : the U.S. South in New World studies / edited with an introduction by Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

xii, 521 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Southern States--Study and teaching.
Southern States--Historiography.
Latin America--Study and teaching.
Latin America--Historiography.
Caribbean Area--Study and teaching.
Caribbean Area--Historiography.
Regionalism--Southern States.
Regionalism--Latin America.
Regionalism--Caribbean Area.

Other Authors:

Smith, Jon, 1963-
Cohn, Deborah N., 1967-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Beyond translation : Jorge Luis Borges revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans. New world poetics of oblivion / George B. Handley -- Delta Desterrados : antebellum New Orleans and new world print culture / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- Slave resistance on the southeastern frontier : fugitives, maroons, and banditti in the age of revolution / Jane Landers -- Martinique/Mississippi : Edouard Glissant and relational insularity / J. Michael Dash -- Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in drag : the narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban woman and Confederate soldier / Jesse Alemán -- Citizenship and identity in the exile autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat / Steven Hunsaker -- Travel and transference : V. S. Naipaul and the plantation past / Leigh Anne Duck -- Things falling apart : the postcolonial condition of Red Rock and The Leopard's Spots / Scott Romine -- This race which is not one : the "more inextricable compositeness" of William Faulkner's South / John T. Matthews -- Richard Wright : from the South to Africa-- and beyond / Richard King -- Forward into the past : California and the contemporary white southern imagination / Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr. and Debra Rae Cohen -- American films/American fantasies : moviegoing and regional identity in literature of the Americas / Lois Parkinson Zamora -- Wonder and the wounds of "southern" histories / Stephanie Merrim -- Southern economies of excess : narrative expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes / Wendy B. Faris -- Cant matter/must matter : setting up the loom in Faulknerian and postcolonial fiction / Philip Weinstein -- "Wherein the South differs from the North" : tracing the noncosmopolitan aesthetic in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude / Dane Johnson -- William Faulkner and the Cold War : the politics of cultural marketing / Helen Oakley -- William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil : the American South in Latin American literature's "other" tradition / Earl Fitz -- Embodying greater Mexico : María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the reconstruction of the Mexican question / John-Michael Rivera -- Remembering the hacienda : history and memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh's Caballero : a Historical Novel / Vincent Pérez -- Posdata, Beyond translation : Jorge Luis Borges revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans.

Series:

New Americanists

ISBN:

9780822333166 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0822333163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780822333043 (cloth : alk. paper)
082233304X (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54096664

LCCN:

2004001303

Locations:

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)