The South that wasn't there
Subtitle: postsouthern memory and history
By: Michael Kreyling.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780807136485
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; Group identity in literature; Regionalism in literature; Southern States -- Intellectual life; Southern States -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: memory, culture, identity; title: "Something of an obstacle": remembering slavery in Morrison's Beloved; title: Robert Penn Warren: the real southerner and the "hypothetical negro"; title: Arms and the man: Southern honor and the memory of Vietnam; title: Haiti: phantom Southern memory in Faulkner and Madison Smartt Bell; title: Parody, memory, and copyright: the Southern memory market; title: Nostalgia, alternate history, and the future of Southern memory.