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Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies
Smith
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Description for Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies
Paperback. Examines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the "south" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean Editor(s): Smith, Jon; Cohn, Deborah N. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 1KJ; 1KL; GTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3887 x 32. Weight in Grams: 748.
Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States—including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade—are common to most of the Americas, Look Away! points to postcolonial studies as perhaps the best perspective from which to comprehend the U.S. South. At the same time it shows how, as part of the United States, the South—both center and margin, victor and defeated, and empire and colony—complicates ideas of the postcolonial. The twenty-two essays in this comparative, interdisciplinary ... Read more
Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States—including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade—are common to most of the Americas, Look Away! points to postcolonial studies as perhaps the best perspective from which to comprehend the U.S. South. At the same time it shows how, as part of the United States, the South—both center and margin, victor and defeated, and empire and colony—complicates ideas of the postcolonial. The twenty-two essays in this comparative, interdisciplinary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
Series
New Americanists
Number of Pages
536
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822333166
SKU
V9780822333166
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About Smith
Jon Smith is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama. Deborah Cohn is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author of History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction.
Reviews for Look Away!: The U.S. South in New World Studies
“Look Away! is an important collection that expands the vocabularies and national symbol systems that scholars can deploy to think comparatively about the Americas. It is especially useful in breaking the binary between North and South that has so restricted southern literary and historical studies.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing