Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South

by C. Lloyd

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137499882
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	06/04/2015
Series:	American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	425 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

"Rooting Memory, Rooting Place is a well-crafted work that makes important interventions into ongoing debates in Southern Studies about the extent to which the South can still be read and understood as a distinctive place in the contexts of twenty-first-century postmodernism and globalization." - Michael Bibler, Associate Professor of English, Louisiana State University, USA

"This is an engaging, insightful, and compelling book that evidences an admirable commitment to the field of Southern Studies and related branches of American Studies and Memory Studies." - Anna Hartnell, Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

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