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The South That Wasn't There: Postsouthern Memory and History

The South That Wasn't There: Postsouthern Memory and History

Kreyling, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Southern Literary Studies

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0807136484
ISBN13: 9780807136485
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Nov 1 2010
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Once, history and the South dwelt in close proximity. Representations of the South in writing and on film assumed everybody knew what had happened in place and time to create the South. Today, our vision of the South varies, and there is less there there than ever before.
In The South That Wasn't There, Michael Kreyling explores a series of literary situations in which memory and history seem to work in odd and problematic ways. Looking at Toni Morrison's masterpiece Beloved, he tests the viability of applying Holocaust and trauma studies to the poetics and politics of remembering slavery. He then turns to Robert Penn Warren's grapplings with his personal memory of racism, which culminated in his attempt to confront the evil directly in his book Who Speaks for the Negro? In a chapter on the court contest between Margaret Mitchell's estate and Alice Randall over Randall's parody The Wind Done Gone, Kreyling treats neglected issues such as the status of literary sequels and parody in an age of advanced commodification of the South.

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