Rooting Memory, Rooting Place [electronic resource] : Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South /
Lloyd, C.author.
This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts.
Introduction: The region and beyond: from the south to the postsouth -- Memories of slavery: museums, monuments, novels -- "There's a life here": Hurricane Katrina's southern biopolitics -- What remains? Sally Mann and the south's gothic memories -- The road home: southern narratives of return -- Conclusion: Beneath the surface.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Historiography.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—Philosophy.
America—Literatures.
Regionalism.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Memory Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Literary Theory.
North American Literature.
Regionalism.