Ex-Centric Souths

Ex-Centric Souths

(Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries

"Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries" adds a voice in ongoing attempts to chart new routes and to decenter the South in many ways in the hope of exploring Southern identity and multiple Souths. The articles collected in this volume 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.  Ex-Centric Souths: (Re)Imagining Southern Centers and Peripheries" afig una veu en els continus intents de traçar noves rutes i descentrar el Sud de moltes maneres amb l'esperança d'explorar la identitat del Sud i dels múltiples hemisferis. Els articles recollits en aquest volum es centren en les connexions i relacions translocals i transnacionals entre el Sud i la regió del Carib, aborden la naturalesa canviant de la identitat meridional, especialment el seu sentit del lloc, i, finalment, investiguen el potencial de diversos textos per a narrar i revisar les preocupacions regionals. Algunes contribucions mostren temes ignorats i marginats, mentre que unes altres descontextualitzen qüestions centrals dels estudis del Sud en narrar històries alternatives.
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  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • (Re)imagined Souths
  • PART I: TRANSNATIONAL SOUTH: THE CARIBBEAN CONNECTION
    • Imagining the South Through the Caribbean: Spatial Narratives of Liberty in the Novels of Holcombe and Livermore
    • Migrant Bodies and the Transnational South: Dissecting Colonial Presence in Ana Lydia Vega’s “Encancaranublado”
    • Un-grounding Identity, Re-thinking Connections in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana
  • PART II: TRANSCENDING THE SOUTHERN SENSE OF PLACE
    • Hot Hot Heat: The U.S. South in Benedict Andrews’s Production of A Streetcar Named Desire
    • Revisiting Southern Home Places: Insider/Outsider Dialectic in Southern Short Fiction
    • A Mythical Interpretation of the Southern Gothic in Cormac McCarthy’s Fiction
    • Between Radiance and Darkness: The South as Grotesque in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
  • PART III: THE SOUTHERN URGE TO TELL
    • Revisiting The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: Carson McCullers’s “Ironic Parable of Fascism”
    • “But why?”: Racial Guilt and the Southern Paradox in Willie Morris’s North Toward Home and Lillian Smith’s Killers of the Dream
    • The Night of the Hunter: The Storied South on Screen
    • Advertising the Deep South in 2018: An Analysis of Destination Image Through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia Travel Guides

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