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.
Author(s): Katharine A. Burnett, Todd Hagstette, Monica Carol Miller
Series: Routledge Literature Companions
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 458
City: New York
Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
PART I: Foundations
Introduction: Foundations
1 Academic Origins of Southern Studies—Spotlight: I’ll Take My Stand
2 Antebellum Literature—Spotlight: William Gilmore Simms
3 Appalachian Literature—Spotlight: Ron Rash
4 The Civil War—Spotlight: Augusta Jane Evans
5 Class and Economics—Spotlight: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941)
6 Colonial Writing—Spotlight: John Smith
7 Community—Spotlight: Monique Truong
8 Drama—Spotlight: Tennessee Williams
9 Film—Spotlight: Deliverance
10 Foodways—Spotlight: Rick Bragg
11 Gender—Spotlight: Sherley Anne Williams
12 The Global South—Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi
13 The Harlem Renaissance—Spotlight: Jean Toomer
14 Home—Spotlight: Alice Walker
15 Humor—Spotlight: Mark Twain
16 Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Era—Spotlight: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
17 Local Color and Regionalism—Spotlight: Charles Chesnutt
18 Modernism—Spotlight: William Faulkner
19 Music—Spotlight: The Country–Soul Triangle (Memphis-Muscle Shoals- Nashville)
20 Native Souths—Spotlight: LeAnne Howe
21 Poetry and Verse—Spotlight: Natasha Trethewey
22 Postbellum Literature—Spotlight: Thomas Nelson Page
23 Reconstruction and the New South—Spotlight: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
24 Religion—Spotlight: Flannery O’Connor
25 Science and Technology—Spotlight: Walker Percy
26 Sexuality—Spotlight: Kate Chopin
27 Slave Narratives—Spotlight: Frederick Douglass
28 Southern Gothic—Spotlight: Toni Morrison
29 Southern Periodical Culture—Spotlight: The Double Dealer (1921–1926)
30 Wilderness South—Spotlight: James Kilgo
PART II: Touchstones
Introduction: Touchstones
31 Anti-Tom Literature—Spotlight: Caroline Lee Hentz
32 Asian American South—Spotlight: Ha Jin
33 Autobiography—Spotlight: Maya Angelou
34 Blues—Spotlight: Langston Hughes
35 Children’s Literature—Spotlight: Mildred Taylor
36 Classical Music—Spotlight: James Weldon Johnson
37 Cold War Literature—Spotlight: Ralph Ellison
38 Cosmopolitanism—Spotlight: Edgar Allan Poe
39 Creolization—Spotlight: George Washington Cable
40 Detective and Mystery Fiction—Spotlight: Margaret Maron
41 Early Contact Souths—Spotlight: La Florida
42 Ecocriticism and the Environment—Spotlight: Wendell Berry
43 Feminism—Spotlight: Lee Smith
44 Grit Lit—Spotlight: Larry Brown
45 Hispanophone Literatures—Spotlight: Nineteenth- Century Hispanophone Periodical Poetry
46 Ireland and the U.S. South—Spotlight: Lafcadio Hearn
47 The Lost Cause Myth—Spotlight: Gone with the Wind
48 Masculinity—Spotlight: Robert Penn Warren
49 Migration—Spotlight: Gayl Jones
50 New Southern Studies—Spotlight: Kiese Laymon
51 Nostalgia—Spotlight: Peter Taylor
52 Old Southwestern Humor—Spotlight: Johnson Jones Hooper
53 Plantation Fiction—Spotlight: John Pendleton Kennedy
54 Postbellum Slave Narratives—Spotlight: Booker T. Washington
55 Pre-Invasion Indigenous Texts—Spotlight: Cherokee Oral Stories
56 The Proslavery Argument—Spotlight: James Henry Hammond
57 Southern Diarists—Spotlight: Mary Chesnut
58 Television—Spotlight: Ava DuVernay, Queen Sugar
59 The Transatlantic South—Spotlight: Katherine Anne Porter
60 Virginia before Jefferson—Spotlight: William Byrd II
61 Women’s Slave Narratives—Spotlight: Harriet Ann Jacobs
PART III: Trajectories
Introduction: Trajectories
62 Activism—Spotlight: Toni Cade Bambara
63 Affect—Spotlight: Eudora Welty
64 Afrofuturism—Spotlight: W.E.B. Du Bois
65 Border Souths—Spotlight: Cormac McCarthy
66 The Carceral South—Spotlight: Ernest Gaines
67 Comics in the U.S. South—Spotlight: Nate Powell
68 Disability Studies—Spotlight: Carson McCullers
69 Environmental Refugees—Spotlight: Moira Crone
70 The Freak South—Spotlight: Erskine Caldwell
71 The Gulf South—Spotlight: Jesmyn Ward
72 Hip Hop and the South—Spotlight: Atlanta Hip Hop
73 Lesbian South—Spotlight: Dorothy Allison
74 Mill Town Literature—Spotlight: Wiley Cash
75 Multiethnic Souths—Spotlight: Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge
76 Neo- Slave Narratives—Spotlight: Colson Whitehead
77 New Media—Spotlight: Blake Hausman
78 The Ozarks—Spotlight: Donald Harington
79 Plantationocene—Spotlight: Zora Neale Hurston
80 Queer Souths—Spotlight: Randall Kenan
81 Southern Cityscapes—Spotlight: George Saunders
82 Southern Hyperboles—Spotlight: Lillian Smith
83 Southern Pirates—Spotlight: Joseph Holt Ingraham
84 The Speculative South—Spotlight: Octavia Butler
85 Trans and Non-Binary Souths—Spotlight: Meredith Russo
86 Trauma—Spotlight: William Styron
87 Undead South s—Spot light: Dead Birds
88 Understanding Southern Studies and Cultural Studies
Works Cited
Index
