Reconstructing the world
Subtitle: Southern fictions and U.S. imperialisms, 1898-1976
By: Harilaos Stecopoulos.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780801446856; 9780801475023
Subjects: American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature and history -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Imperialism in literature; Regionalism in literature; Southern States -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The geography of reunion : Thomas Dixon, Charles Chesnutt, and the McKinley expansionists; title: Up from empire : James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South; title: "Take your geography and trace it" : W.E.B. Du Bois and the reconstruction of the South; title: "Members of the whole world" : Carson McCullers's military fictions; title: Mississippi on the Pacific : William Faulkner and Richard Wright in postwar Asia; title: Epilogue : Alice Walker and the lost cause.