Overview

The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South provides a collection of vibrant and multidisciplinary essays by scholars from a wide range of backgrounds working in the field of U.S. southern literary studies. With topics ranging from American studies, African American studies, transatlantic or global studies, multiethnic studies, immigration studies, and gender studies, this volume presents a multi-faceted conversation around a wide variety of subjects in U.S. southern literary studies. The Companion will offer a comprehensive overview of the southern literary studies field, including a chronological history from the U.S. colonial era to the present day and theoretical touchstones, while also introducing new methods of reconceiving region and the U.S. South as inherently interdisciplinary and multi-dimensional. The volume will therefore be an invaluable tool for instructors, scholars, students, and members of the general public who are interested in exploring the field further but will also suggest new methods of engaging with regional studies, American studies, American literary studies, and cultural studies.

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Author:   Katharine A. Burnett ,  Todd Hagstette ,  Monica Carol Miller
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367444655

ISBN 10:   0367444658
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   11 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction Katharine A. Burnett, Todd Hagstette, and Monica Carol Miller Part I: Foundations Introduction: Foundations Todd Hagstette 1. Academic Origins of Southern Studies (Spotlight: I’ll Take My Stand) Ted Atkinson 2. Antebellum Literature (Spotlight: William Gilmore Simms) Katharine A. Burnett 3. Appalachian Literature (Spotlight: Ron Rash) Zackary Vernon 4. The Civil War (Spotlight: Augusta Jane Evans) Karen Tracey 5. Class and Economics (Spotlight: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)) David A. Davis 6. Colonial Writing (Spotlight: John Smith) Dan Waldon 7. Community (Spotlight: Monique Truong) Elizabeth Gardner 8. Drama (Spotlight: Tennessee Williams) William Mark Poteet 9. Film (Spotlight: Deliverance) Robert Jackson 10. Foodways (Spotlight: Rick Bragg) Erica Abrams Locklear 11. Gender (Spotlight: Sherley Anne Williams) Michael Bibler 12. The Global South (Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi) Amy K. King 13. The Harlem Renaissance (Spotlight: Jean Toomer) Ricardo A. Wilson II 14. Home (Spotlight: Alice Walker) Nagueyalti Warren 15. Humor (Spotlight: Mark Twain) John Bird 16. Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Era (Spotlight: To Kill a Mockingbird) Julie Buckner Armstrong 17. Local Color and Regionalism (Spotlight: Charles Chesnutt) Bill Hardwig 18. Modernism (Spotlight: William Faulkner) Thomas F. Haddox 19. Music (Spotlight: The Country-Soul Triangle [Memphis-Muscle Shoals-Nashville]) Ellie Campbell 20. Native Souths (Spotlight: LeAnne Howe) Kirstin L. Squint 21. Poetry and Verse (Spotlight: Natasha Trethewey) Christie Collins 22. Postbellum Literature (Spotlight: Thomas Nelson Page) Christopher Bundrick 23. Reconstruction and the New South (Spotlight: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper) Sherita Johnson 24. Religion (Spotlight: Flannery O’Connor) Matt Bryant Cheney 25. Science and Technology (Spotlight: Walker Percy) Doug Davis 26. Sexuality (Spotlight: Kate Chopin) Jaime Cantrell 27. Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Frederick Douglass) Sandra Burr 28. Southern Gothic (Spotlight: Toni Morrison) Melanie Anderson 29. Southern Periodical Culture (Spotlight: The Double Dealer [1921-1926]) Sian Round 30. Wilderness South (Spotlight: James Kilgo) Anthony Dyer Hoefer Part II: Touchstones Introduction: Touchstones Katharine A. Burnett 31. Anti-Tom Literature (Spotlight: Caroline Lee Hentz) Peter Templeton 32. Asian American South (Spotlight: Ha Jin) Suzanne Kamata 33. Autobiography (Spotlight: Maya Angelou) Matthew Sutton 34. Blues (Spotlight: Langston Hughes) Elizabeth LeRud 35. Children’s Literature (Spotlight: Mildred Taylor) Laura Hakala 36. Classical Music (Spotlight: James Weldon Johnson) Tamyln Avery 37. Cold War Literature (Spotlight: Ralph Ellison) Atsushi Marutani 38. Cosmopolitanism (Spotlight: Edgar Allan Poe) Kristopher Mecholsky 39. Creolization (Spotlight: George Washington Cable) Amanda M. Capelli 40. Detective and Mystery Fiction (Spotlight: Margaret Maron) John Jebb 41. Early Contact Souths (Spotlight: La Florida) E. Thomson Shields, Jr. 42. Ecocriticism and the Environment (Spotlight: Wendell Berry) Sarah-Marie Horning 43. Feminism (Spotlight: Lee Smith) Monica Carol Miller 44. Grit Lit (Spotlight: Larry Brown) Peter Jay Ingrao 45. Hispanophone Literatures (Spotlight: Nineteenth-Century Hispanophone Periodical Poetry) Ayendy Bonifacio 46. Ireland and the U.S. South (Spotlight: Lafcadio Hearn) Jessica L. Martell 47. The Lost Cause Myth (Spotlight: Gone with the Wind) Sean Heuston 48. Masculinity (Spotlight: Robert Penn Warren) Wes Berry 49. Migration (Spotlight: Gayl Jones) Joanna Davis-McElligatt 50. New Southern Studies (Spotlight: Kiese Laymon) Kathryn McKee 51. Nostalgia (Spotlight: Peter Taylor) W. Matthew J. Simmons 52. Old Southwestern Humor (Spotlight: Johnson Jones Hooper) John Miller 53. Plantation Fiction (Spotlight: John Pendleton Kennedy) Christopher Bundrick 54. Postbellum Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Booker T. Washington) Adam Yeich 55. Pre-Invasion Indigenous Texts (Spotlight: Cherokee Oral Stories) Eric Gary Anderson 56. The Proslavery Argument (Spotlight: James Henry Hammond) Todd Hagstette 57. Southern Diarists (Spotlight: Mary Chesnut) Julia Nitz 58. Television (Spotlight: Ava DuVernay, Queen Sugar) Stephanie Rountree 59. The Transatlantic South (Spotlight: Katherine Anne Porter) Joseph Kuhn 60. Virginia before Jefferson (Spotlight: William Byrd II) Amanda Louise Johnson 61. Women’s Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Harriet Ann Jacobs) Delphine Louis-Dimitrov Part III: Trajectories Introduction: Trajectories Monica Carol Miller 62. Activism (Spotlight: Toni Cade Bambara) Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder 63. Affect (Spotlight: Eudora Welty) Jill Fennell 64. Afrofuturism (Spotlight: W.E.B. Du Bois) Samanda Robinson 65. Border Souths (Spotlight: Cormac McCarthy) Sally Ann Schutz 66. The Carceral South (Spotlight: Ernest Gaines) Elizabeth Steeby 67. Comics in the U.S. South (Spotlight: Nate Powell)Matthew Teutsch 68. Disability Studies (Spotlight: Carson McCullers) Bruce Henderson 69. Environmental Refugees (Spotlight: Moira Crone) Zackary Vernon 70. The Freak South (Spotlight: Erskine Caldwell) Erik Kline 71. The Gulf South (Spotlight: Jesmyn Ward) Jim Coby 72. Hip Hop and the South (Spotlight: Atlanta Hip Hop) Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis 73. Lesbian South (Spotlight: Dorothy Allison) Jamie Harker 74. Mill Town Literature (Spotlight: Wiley Cash) Jimmy Dean Smith 75. Multiethnic Souths (Spotlight: Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge) Amy Schmidt 76. Neo-Slave Narratives (Spotlight: Colson Whitehead) Allison Harris 77. New Media (Spotlight: Blake Hausman) Gina Caison 78. The Ozarks (Spotlight: Donald Harington) Joe Farmer 79. Plantationocene (Spotlight Randall Kenan) Sandra Burr 80. Queer Souths (Spotlight: Randall Kenan) Eric Solomon 81. Southern Cityscapes (Spotlight: George Saunders) William Murray 82. Southern Hyperboles (Spotlight: Lillian Smith) Michał Choiński 83. Southern Pirates (Spotlight: Joseph Holt Ingraham) Kathleen Crosby 84. The Speculative South (Spotlight: Octavia Butler) Ellie Campbell 85. Trans and Non-Binary Souths (Spotlight: Meredith Russo) Phillip ""Pip"" Gordon 86. Trauma (Spotlight: William Styron) Jean W. Cash 87. Undead Souths (Spotlight: Dead Birds)Eric Gary Anderson 88. Understanding Southern Studies and Cultural Studies Jennie Lightweis-Goff"

Reviews

One echo above all came to mind when I read the introduction and contents of the new Routledge Companion to Southern Literature: The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Jefferson has been placed in both categories over the long haul of southern studies. The editors and contributors to this new volume should be looked at as significant refreshers. How far we have come from Jay Hubbell's The South in American Literature. -Michael Kreyling, author of Inventing Southern Literature (1998) and The South That Wasn't There (2010)

One echo above all came to mind when I read the introduction and contents of the new Routledge Companion to Southern Literature: The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Jefferson has been placed in both categories over the long haul of southern studies. The editors and contributors to this new volume should be looked at as significant refreshers. How far we have come from Jay Hubbell's The South in American Literature. -Michael Kreyling, author of Inventing Southern Literature (1998) and The South That Wasn't There (2010)

"""One echo above all came to mind when I read the introduction and contents of the new Routledge Companion to Southern Literature: ""The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."" Jefferson has been placed in both categories over the long haul of southern studies. The editors and contributors to this new volume should be looked at as significant ""refreshers."" How far we have come from Jay Hubbell's The South in American Literature."" -Michael Kreyling, author of Inventing Southern Literature (1998) and The South That Wasn't There (2010)"

Author Information

Katharine A. Burnett is Associate Professor of English at Fisk University, USA. Todd Hagstette is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina Aiken, USA. Monica Carol Miller is Assistant Professor of English at Middle Georgia State University, USA.

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