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Global Contexts, Local Literatures: The New Southern Studies
- A special issue of: American Literature
- Volume: 78
- Issue: 4
- Published: 2006
- Pages: 264
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1. Preface: Global Contexts, Local Literatures: The New Southern Studies–Kathryn McKee and Annette Trefzer
2. The U.S. South in Global Contexts: A Collection of Position Statements–Barbara Ellen Smith, Tara McPherson, Jamie L.Winders, Alfred J. López, Deborah Cohn, Jon Smith, Leigh Anne Duck, Natalie J. Ring, Susan V. Donaldson, George B. Handley, John T. Matthews, Riché Richardson, Suzanne W. Jones, Jay Watson, Eric Gary Anderson, and Peter Schmidt
3. ‘‘To Walk with the Storm’’: Oya as the Transformative ‘‘I’’ of Zora Neale Hurston’s Afro-Atlantic Callings–Keith Cartwright
4. Circum-Atlantic Superabundance: Milk as World-Making in Alice Randall and Kara Walker–Patricia Yaeger
5. We Are Not the People: The 1805 Haitian Constitution’s Challenge to Political Legibility in the Age of Revolution–Anne W. Gulick
6. Confederate Cuba–Caroline Levander
Review Essays
7. Global South, Local South: The New Postnationalism in U.S. Southern Studies–Hosam Aboul-Ela
8. ‘‘Unstoppable’’ Creolization: The Evolution of the South into a Transnational Cultural Space–Alfred Hornung
Book Reviews
9. New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing by David Read–Philip Gould
10. Popular Measures: Poetry and Church Order in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts by Amy M. E. Morris–Philip Gould
11. Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America by E. Jennifer Monaghan–
Philip Gould
12. Susan Glaspell: Her Life and Times by Linda Ben-Zvi–Lisa MacFarlane
13. Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism by Kirsten Blythe Painter–Edwin J. Barton
14. Modernism: A Cultural History by Tim Armstrong–Edwin J. Barton
15. Unknowing: The Work of Modernist Fiction by Philip M. Weinstein–
Edwin J. Barton
16. Mesquita Vision’s Immanence: Faulkner, Film, and the Popular Imagination by Peter Lurie–Paula Elyseu
17. Mesquita Faulkner and the Discourses of Culture by Charles Hannon–
Paula Elyseu
18. Call It English: The Languages of Jewish American Literature by Hana Wirth-Nesher–Jules Chametzky
19. Two Covenants: Representations of Southern Jewishness by Eliza R. L. McGraw–Jules Chametzky
20. Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America by Eric J. Sundquist–Jules Chametzky
21. Liberation Historiography: African American Writers and the Challenge of History, 1794–1861 by John Ernest–Stephen Knadler
22. The Contemporary African American Novel: Its Folk Roots and Modern Literary Branches by Bernard W. Bell–Stephen Knadler
23. Playing the Races: Ethnic Caricature and American Literary Realism by Henry B. Wonham–Habiba Ibrahim
24. Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture by Martha Jane Nadell–Habiba Ibrahim
25. Hoodlums: Black Villains and Social Bandits in American Life by William L. Van Deburg–Habiba Ibrahim
26. Postslavery Literatures in the Americas: Family Portraits in Black and White by George B. Handley–Zita Nunes
27. The African Diaspora and Autobiographics: Skeins of Self and
Skin by Chinosole–Zita Nunes
28. The ‘‘Tragic Mulatta’’ Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction by Eva Allegra Raimon–Jené Schoenfeld
29. The Mulatta and the Politics of Race by Teresa C. Zackodnik–Jené Schoenfeld
30. Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture by Robert D. Aguirre–Kirsten Silva Gruesz
31. Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States by Rodrigo Lazo–Kirsten Silva Gruesz
32. Narratives of Greater Mexico: Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders by Héctor Calderón–Rafael Pérez-Torres
33. Life in Search of Readers: Reading (in) Chicano/a Literature by Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez–Rafael Pérez-Torres
34. Hard-Boiled Masculinities by Christopher Breu–Ryan Schneider
35. Cool Men and the Second Sex by Susan Fraiman–Ryan Schneider
36. Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity by Daniel Y. Kim–Ryan Schneider
37. Wounded Hearts: Masculinity, Law, and Literature in American Culture by Jennifer Travis–Ryan Schneider
38. Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture by John G. Cawelti–Greg Forter
39. Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature by Josephine Gattuso Hendin–Greg Forter
40. Announcements
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- Hosam Aboul-Ela
- Edwin J. Barton
- Keith Cartwright
- Jules Chametzky
- Paula Elyseu
- Greg Forter
- Philip Gould
- Kirsten Silva Gruesz
- Anne W. Gulick
- Alfred Hornung
- Habiba Ibrahim
- Stephen Knadler
- Caroline Levander
- Lisa MacFarlane
- Rafael Pérez-Torres
- Ryan Schneider
- Jene Schoenfeld
- Barbara Ellen Smith
- Patricia Yaeger
- Tara McPherson
- Annette Trefzer
- Jamie L. Winders
- Alfred J. Lopez
- Deborah Cohn
- Jon Smith
- Leigh Anne Duck
- Natalie J. Ring
- Susan V. Donaldson
- George B. Handley
- John T. Matthews
- Riché Richardson
- Suzanne W. Jones
- Jay Watson
- Eric Gary Anderson
- Peter Schmidt
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Description
Recent debates about globalism have usefully transformed the positioning and the cultural geography of studies of the American South. Once marked by tensions between the national and the regional, southern studies is now increasingly characterized by tensions between the local and the global. This special issue of American Literature features interdisciplinary and comparative work that focuses on the U.S. South in global contexts and attempts to reconceptualize the South from various theoretical, literary, and cultural perspectives. The new southern studies promises to be less preoccupied with patriarchal whiteness and rural idyll and more concerned with understanding the U.S. South as a construction of border crossings of every sort.
Featured essays examine the political, economic, and social effects of globalization on the geopolitical locale and literary productions of the region. Each seeks to redefine the geographic and epistemological boundaries of the U.S. South by linking it to other “Souths” globally. The issue opens with a collection of manifestos given at the recent conference “The U.S. South in Global Context.” These unique pieces offer variant perspectives on a common theme. Touching on history, community, migration, globalizing modernization, and even Wal-Mart, these sixteen briefs remind the reader that the American South is somewhere between the modern cosmopolitan and the historical rural spheres. One contributor examines how modernization has spread unevenly throughout the region and how it has affected recent immigrants to southern hybrid culture. Another engages in a comparative exercise between the U.S. South and Latin America, addressing questions of postcolonialism. Other contributors reflect on southern distinctiveness, southern literature, and southern colonial life. Included in the issue is a collection of original and review essays focused geographically on still lower latitudes: investigations of the Deep South and certain Caribbean cultures, and comparisons of the U.S. South to the underprivileged global South.
Contributors. Hosam Aboul-Ela, Eric Gary Anderson, Keith Cartwright, Deborah Cohn, Susan V. Donaldson, Leigh Anne Duck, Anne W. Gulick, George B. Handley, Alfred Hornung, Suzanne W. Jones, Caroline Levander, Alfred J. López, John T. Matthews, Kathryn McKee, Tara McPherson, Riché Richardson, Natalie J. Ring, Peter Schmidt, Barbara Ellen Smith, Jon Smith, Annette Trefzer, Jay Watson, Jamie L. Winders, Patricia Yaeger