AAVV - Ex-Centric Souths

The articles collected in this volume reimagine the centers and peripheries of the American South in an attempt to explore multiple Souths. These essays bring to the forefront the translocal and transnational connections and relationships between the South and the circum-Caribbean region; they address the changing nature of Southernness, and especially its sense of place, and finally they investigate the potential of various texts to narrate and revisit regional concerns. Some contributions hold up to view topics ignored and marginalized, while other decontextualize themes and issues central to Southern studies by telling alternative histories.

Works cited

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism , 2nd edition. London: Verso, 1991. Print.

Baker, Houston and Dana Nelson. “Preface: Violence, the Body and ‘The South’.” American Literature 73:2 (June 2001): 231-244. Web 15 April 2019. https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/73/2/231/4064/Preface-Violence-the-Body-and-The-South

Barker, Deborah and Kathryn McKee. “Introduction: The Southern Imaginary.” American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary. Eds. Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee. University of Georgia Press, 2011. 1-26. Print.

Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 1994. Print.

Brasell, Bruce. The Possible South: Documentary Film and the Limitations of Biraciality. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015. Print.

Brinkmeyer, Robert. Remapping Southern Literature: Southern Writers and the West. University of Georgia Press, 2010. Print.

Burton, Orville Vernon. “The South as ‘Other,’ the Southerner as ‘Stranger’.” The Journal of Southern History 79.1 (February 2013), 7-50. Web 10 December 2018. ebscohost.com.

Cash, W. J. The Mind of the South. 1941. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Print.

Cimakasky, Joseph. The Role of Exaíphnes in Early Greek Literature: Philosophical Transformation in Plato’s Dialogues and Beyond . Lexington Books, 2017. Print.

Cobb, James C. Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. Oxford University Press, 2005. Print.

Cohn, Deborah. History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction . Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1999. Print.

Cooper, Christopher A. and H. Gibbs Knotts. The Resilience of Southern Identity: Why the South Still Matters in the Minds of Its People. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Print.

Du Bois, W.E.B. “The Color Line Belts the World.” Collier’s Weekly (October 20, 1906), collected in W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader , ed. David Levering Lewis. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1995. 42-43. Print.

Glissant, Édouard. Poetics of Relation . Translated by Betsy Wing. University of Michigan Press, 1997. Print.

Gray, Richard. “Forward: Inventing Communities, Imagining Places: Some Thoughts on Southern Self-Fashioning.” South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Ed. Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. xiii-xxiii. Print.

Greeson, Jennifer Rae. Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature . Harvard University Press, 2010. Print.

Griffin, Larry J. “Southern Distinctiveness, Yet Again, or, Why America Still Needs the South.” Southern Cultures 6.3 (2000): 47-72. Web. 18 September 2018. https://muse.jhu.edu.

Hersh, Seymour M. The Price of Power: Kissinger in the White House , New York: Summit Books, 1983. Print.

Hurrell, Andrew. “Regionalism in Theoretical Perspective.” Regionalism in World Politics: Regional Organisations and International Order . Ed. L. Fawcett and A. Hurrell. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 37-73. Print.

Jansson, David R. “‘A Geography of Racism’: Internal Orientalism and the Construction of American National Identity in the Film Mississippi Burning. ” National Identities 7:3 (2005), 265-285. DOI: 10.1080/14608940500201797 WEB 20 November 2018.

___ . “Internal Orientalism in America: W.J. Cash’s The Mind of the South and the Spatial Construction of American National Identity.” Political Geography 22 (March 2003): 293-316. Print.

Kreyling, Michael. “Toward ‘A New Southern Studies’.” South Central Review 22.1 (2005): 4-18. Print.

Ladd, Barbara. “Dismantling the Monolith: Southern Places – Past, Present, and Future.” Critical Survey 12.1 (2000): 28-42. Print.

___ . “Literary Studies: The Southern United States, 2005.” PMLA 120.5 (October 2005): 1628-39. Print.

Lassiter, Matthew and Joseph Crespino. “Introduction: The End of Southern History.” The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism . Matthew D. Lassiter and Joseph Crespino. Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.

McKee, Kathryn and Annette Trefzer, eds. “Global Contexts, Local Literatures: The New Southern Studies.” American Literature 78:4 (December 2006). Web 18 February 2019. https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/issue/78/4.

McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South. Duke University Press, 2003. Print.

Monteith, Sharon and Suzanne W. Jones. “Introduction: South to New Places.” South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture . Ed. Sharon Monteith and Suzanne Jones. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. 1-19. Print.

Nyerges, Aaron and Thomas Adams. “Introduction: Regionalizing American Studies Within and Beyond the Nation.” Australasian Journal of American Studies 36.2 (December 2017).Web 10 January 2018.

Romine, Scott. The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction . Baton Rouge: Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. Print.

___ . “Where is Southern Literature?: The Practice of Place in a Postsouthern Age.” Critical Survey (2000): 5-27. Web 11 January 2018. www.jstor.org.

Smith, Jon. “Hot Bodies and ‘Barbaric Tropics’: The U.S. South and New World Natures.” The Southern Literary Journal 36.1 (Fall 2003): 104-120. Print.

___ . “The U.S. South and the Future of the Postcolonial.” The Global South 1.1 (Winter, 2007): 153-158. Web 15 April 2019. www.jstor.org.

Smith, Jon and Deborah Cohn. “Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities.” Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies. Ed. Jon Smith and Deborah N. Cohn. Duke University Press, 2004. 1-24. Print.

Staszak, Jean-François. “Other/Otherness.” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Volume 8. eds. Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009. 43-47. Print.

Steed, Robert P., Lawrence W. Moreland and Tod A. Baker, eds. The Disappearing South? Studies in Regional Change and Continuity. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. Print.

Further reading

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literature . Routledge, 1989. Print.

Bingham, Shawn Chandler and Lindsey A. Freeman, ed. The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. Print.

Campbell, Edward Jr. The Celluloid South: Hollywood and the Southern Myth. University of Tennessee Press, 1981. Print.

Cartwright, Keith. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. Print.