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Author:

Kreyling, Michael, 1948-

Title:

The South that wasn't there : postsouthern memory and history / Michael Kreyling.

Publisher:

Louisiana State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xi, 223 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

American literature--Southern States--History and criticism.
Southern States--Intellectual life.
Southern States--In literature.
Group identity in literature.
Regionalism in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: memory, culture, identity -- "Something of an obstacle": remembering slavery in Morrison's Beloved -- Robert Penn Warren: the real southerner and the "hypothetical negro" -- Arms and the man: Southern honor and the memory of Vietnam -- Haiti: phantom Southern memory in Faulkner and Madison Smartt Bell -- Parody, memory, and copyright: the Southern memory market -- Nostalgia, alternate history, and the future of Southern memory.

Series:

Southern literary studies

ISBN:

0807136484 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807136485 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)496160319

LCCN:

2009053709

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)