Keywords for Southern Studies

by Scott Romine (Editor), Jennifer Rae Greeson (Editor), Erich Nunn (Contribution by), Keith Cartwright (Contribution by), Thomas F. Haddox (Contribution by)

Overview

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general.

The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refutes standard binary thinking—First World/Third World, self/other, for instance—that postcolonial studies revealed as a flawed rhetorical structure for analyzing empire. Instead, Keywords promotes a holistic way of thinking that begins with southern studies but extends beyond.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820349619
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	08/15/2016
Series:	The New Southern Studies Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	424
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

ERICH NUNN is assistant professor of English at Auburn University and a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University’s Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. His work has been published in the Faulkner Journal; The Mark Twain Annual; Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts; Studies in American Culture; and in the edited collection, Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities.
KEITH CARTWRIGHT is an associate professor of English at the University of North Florida. He is the author of Reading Africa into American Literature: Epics, Fables, and Gothic Tales; Junkanoo: A Christmas Pageant; and Saint-Louis: A Wool Strip-Cloth for Sekou Dabo.
LEIGH ANNE DUCK is an assistant professor of English at the University of Memphis.
MELANIE BENSON TAYLOR is an assistant professor of English and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912–2002 and Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause (both Georgia).
MARTYN BONE is an associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction, editor of Perspectives on Barry Hannah, and coeditor of Creating and Consuming the American South.
HOUSTON A. BAKER JR. is a professor of English at Duke University. Among his honors and achievements in American letters, Baker is a past president of the Modern Language Association. His books include Workings of the Spirit: The Poetics of Afro-American Women's Writing and Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy.
JOHN T. MATTHEWS is a professor of English at Boston University. His research focuses on American literature, modernist studies, literary theory, and literature of the U.S. South, with special attention to William Faulkner. He is the author of The Play of Faulkner's Language and William Faulkner: Seeing through the South.
CLAUDIA MILIAN is an assistant professor of romance studies at Duke University.
TED ATKINSON teaches at Augusta State University in Georgia.
NATALIE J. RING is an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is coeditor, with Stephanie Cole, of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South.

Table of Contents

Introduction Jennifer Rae Greeson Scott Romine 1

Part I Regimes

Incarceration Houston A. Baker 9

Plantation Matthew Pratt Guterl 22

Nation Jennifer Rae Greeson 30

Empire Harilaos Stecopoulos 38

Labor Ted Atkinson 48

Segregation Leigh Anne Duck 60

Part II Places

Black Atlantic Keith Cartwright 73

Tropics Natalie J. Ring 88

Haiti Anna Brickhouse 99

America Deborah Cohn 108

Region Wanda Rushing 121

Global South Eric Lott 133

Part III Peoples

Creole/Creolization Shirley Elizabeth Thompson 141

Black and White Suzanne W. Jones 155

Native Eric Gary Anderson 166

Latin Claudia Milian 179

Folk Erich Nunn 189

Queer/Quare Michael P. Bibler 200

Part IV Approaches

Consumption Scott Romine 215

Performance Jayna Brown 227

Book History Coleman Hutchison 239

Literature Thomas F. Haddox 250

Ecology/Environment Steven E. Knepper 264

Part V Structures of Feeling

Fetish John T. Matthews 279

Fundamentalism Briallen Hopper 292

Exceptionalism Sylvia Shin Huey Chong 304

Romance/Abjection Riché Richardson 316

Modernism/Modernity Melanie Benson Taylor 328

Postsouthern Martyn Bone 340

Trauma Jon Smith 354

Works Cited 367

Contributors 399

Index 405

Editorial Reviews

The collection effectively and persuasively makes clear that there is nothing fixed or stable about the South. . . . The essays in Keywords for Southern Studies each point out the bins we have written ourselves into when we essentialize.

The Journal of Southern History - Sarah E. Gardner