Lloyd Rooting Memory, Rooting Place

Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-49988-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century

This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lloyd, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Region and Beyond: From the South to the Postsouth 1. Memories of Slavery: Museums, Monuments, Novels 2. "There's a Life Here": Hurricane Katrina's Southern Biopolitics 3. What Remains? Sally Mann and the South's Gothic Memories 4. The Road Home: Southern Narratives of Return Conclusion: Beneath the Surface

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Lloyd is Lecturer at London South Bank University, UK.