The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South (Routledge Literature Companions)

__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. This book 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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Contributors 13 Introduction 18 PART I: Foundations 22 Introduction: Foundations 24 1 Academic Origins of Southern Studies—Spotlight: I’ll Take My Stand 25 2 Antebellum Literature—Spotlight: William Gilmore Simms 29 3 Appalachian Literature—Spotlight: Ron Rash 33 4 The Civil War—Spotlight: Augusta Jane Evans 37 5 Class and Economics—Spotlight: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) 41 6 Colonial Writing—Spotlight: John Smith 45 7 Community—Spotlight: Monique Truong 49 8 Drama—Spotlight: Tennessee Williams 53 9 Film—Spotlight: Deliverance 58 10 Foodways—Spotlight: Rick Bragg 62 11 Gender—Spotlight: Sherley Anne Williams 66 12 The Global South—Spotlight: Yaa Gyasi 70 13 The Harlem Renaissance—Spotlight: Jean Toomer 74 14 Home—Spotlight: Alice Walker 78 15 Humor—Spotlight: Mark Twain 82 16 Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Era—Spotlight: To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) 86 17 Local Color and Regionalism—Spotlight: Charles Chesnutt 90 18 Modernism—Spotlight: William Faulkner 94 19 Music—Spotlight: The Country–Soul Triangle (Memphis-Muscle Shoals- Nashville) 98 20 Native Souths—Spotlight: LeAnne Howe 103 21 Poetry and Verse—Spotlight: Natasha Trethewey 107 22 Postbellum Literature—Spotlight: Thomas Nelson Page 111 23 Reconstruction and the New South—Spotlight: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 115 24 Religion—Spotlight: Flannery O’Connor 120 25 Science and Technology—Spotlight: Walker Percy 124 26 Sexuality—Spotlight: Kate Chopin 128 27 Slave Narratives—Spotlight: Frederick Douglass 133 28 Southern Gothic—Spotlight: Toni Morrison 138 29 Southern Periodical Culture—Spotlight: The Double Dealer (1921–1926) 142 30 Wilderness South—Spotlight: James Kilgo 146 PART II: Touchstones 150 Introduction: Touchstones 152 31 Anti-Tom Literature—Spotlight: Caroline Lee Hentz 153 32 Asian American South—Spotlight: Ha Jin 158 33 Autobiography—Spotlight: Maya Angelou 162 34 Blues—Spotlight: Langston Hughes 166 35 Children’s Literature—Spotlight: Mildred Taylor 170 36 Classical Music—Spotlight: James Weldon Johnson 174 37 Cold War Literature—Spotlight: Ralph Ellison 179 38 Cosmopolitanism—Spotlight: Edgar Allan Poe 183 39 Creolization—Spotlight: George Washington Cable 188 40 Detective and Mystery Fiction—Spotlight: Margaret Maron 192 41 Early Contact Souths—Spotlight: La Florida 196 42 Ecocriticism and the Environment—Spotlight: Wendell Berry 200 43 Feminism—Spotlight: Lee Smith 205 44 Grit Lit—Spotlight: Larry Brown 209 45 Hispanophone Literatures—Spotlight: Nineteenth- Century Hispanophone Periodical Poetry 212 46 Ireland and the U.S. South—Spotlight: Lafcadio Hearn 216 47 The Lost Cause Myth—Spotlight: Gone with the Wind 221 48 Masculinity—Spotlight: Robert Penn Warren 224 49 Migration—Spotlight: Gayl Jones 228 50 New Southern Studies—Spotlight: Kiese Laymon 232 51 Nostalgia—Spotlight: Peter Taylor 236 52 Old Southwestern Humor—Spotlight: Johnson Jones Hooper 240 53 Plantation Fiction—Spotlight: John Pendleton Kennedy 245 54 Postbellum Slave Narratives—Spotlight: Booker T. Washington 249 55 Pre-Invasion Indigenous Texts—Spotlight: Cherokee Oral Stories 253 56 The Proslavery Argument—Spotlight: James Henry Hammond 257 57 Southern Diarists—Spotlight: Mary Chesnut 262 58 Television—Spotlight: Ava DuVernay, Queen Sugar 266 59 The Transatlantic South—Spotlight: Katherine Anne Porter 271 60 Virginia before Jefferson—Spotlight: William Byrd II 275 61 Women’s Slave Narratives—Spotlight: Harriet Ann Jacobs 278 PART III: Trajectories 284 Introduction: Trajectories 286 62 Activism—Spotlight: Toni Cade Bambara 287 63 Affect—Spotlight: Eudora Welty 292 64 Afrofuturism—Spotlight: W.E.B. Du Bois 296 65 Border Souths—Spotlight: Cormac McCarthy 300 66 The Carceral South—Spotlight: Ernest Gaines 304 67 Comics in the U.S. South—Spotlight: Nate Powell 308 68 Disability Studies—Spotlight: Carson McCullers 312 69 Environmental Refugees—Spotlight: Moira Crone 316 70 The Freak South—Spotlight: Erskine Caldwell 320 71 The Gulf South—Spotlight: Jesmyn Ward 325 72 Hip Hop and the South—Spotlight: Atlanta Hip Hop 329 73 Lesbian South—Spotlight: Dorothy Allison 334 74 Mill Town Literature—Spotlight: Wiley Cash 338 75 Multiethnic Souths—Spotlight: Lan Cao’s Monkey Bridge 342 76 Neo- Slave Narratives—Spotlight: Colson Whitehead 346 77 New Media—Spotlight: Blake Hausman 350 78 The Ozarks—Spotlight: Donald Harington 354 79 Plantationocene—Spotlight: Zora Neale Hurston 358 80 Queer Souths—Spotlight: Randall Kenan 363 81 Southern Cityscapes—Spotlight: George Saunders 368 82 Southern Hyperboles—Spotlight: Lillian Smith 372 83 Southern Pirates—Spotlight: Joseph Holt Ingraham 376 84 The Speculative South—Spotlight: Octavia Butler 380 85 Trans and Non-Binary Souths—Spotlight: Meredith Russo 384 86 Trauma—Spotlight: William Styron 388 87 Undead South s—Spot light: Dead Birds 392 88 Understanding Southern Studies and Cultural Studies 396 Works Cited 402 Index 450 Foundations;,Antebellum,Literature;,Foodways;,Humor–Spotlight;,Modernism Foundations,Antebellum Literature,Foodways,Humor–Spotlight,Modernism "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."--Page [4] of cover The Routledge Companion to the 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 studies.