Look Away! : The U.S. South in New World Studies

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities -- 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN -- A New World Poetics of Oblivion -- Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture -- Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities -- 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN -- A New World Poetics of Oblivion -- Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture -- Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution -- Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity -- Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier -- Citizenship and Identity in the Exile Autobiographies of Gustavo Pérez Firmat -- Travel and Transference: V. S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past -- 2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION -- Things Falling Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Red Rock and The Leopard’s Spots -- This Race Which Is Not One: The ‘‘More Inextricable Compositeness’’ of William Faulkner’s South -- Richard Wright: From the South to Africa—and Beyond -- Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination -- American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas -- 3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA -- Wonder and the Wounds of ‘‘Southern’’ Histories -- Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes -- Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting Up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction -- ‘‘Wherein the South Di√ers from the North’’: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude -- William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing -- William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s ‘‘Other’’ Tradition -- 4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH -- Embodying Greater Mexico: María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question -- Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel -- POSDATA -- Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner -- Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung