Research Catalog

Title

Where the new world is : literature about the U.S. South at global scales / Martyn Bone.

Author

Bone, Martyn, 1974-

Publication

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]

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Details

Description

xxii, 280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of some eighty years, challenged received readings and understandings of the U.S. South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration (or even internal migration) and economic globalization. The writers discussed by Bone emphasize how migration and labor have reconfigured the region's relation to the nation and a range of transnational scales: hemispheric (Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti), transatlantic/Black Atlantic (Denmark, England, Mauritania), and transpacific/global southern (Australia, China, Vietnam). Writers under consideration include Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, Erna Brodber, Cynthia Shearer, Ha Jin, Monique Truong, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, Peter Matthiessen, Dave Eggers, and Laila Lalami. The book also seeks to resituate southern studies by drawing on theories of "scale" that originated in human geography. In this way, Bone also offers a new paradigm in which the U.S. South is thoroughly engaged with a range of other scales from the local to the global, making both literature about the region and southern studies itself truly transnational in scope" --

Series Statement

New Southern studies

Uniform Title

New southern studies.

Alternative Title

Literature about the U.S. South at global scales

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Globalization in literature
• American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism
• American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
• American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism
• Emigration and immigration in literature
• Cultural pluralism in literature
• American fiction
• Literature
• Einwanderung
• Roman
• Southern States > In literature
• Southern States
• United States > Südstaaten

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-267) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Introduction. The transnational turn in the South -- The extended South of black folk : intraregional and transnational migrant labor in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston -- Transnational/intertextual migrations and U.S. Southern, Danish, and English "folk" identities in Nella Larsen's fiction -- Downsouth, upsouth, global South : migration and the "new world" in John Oliver Killens's writing -- The North-South axis of race, class, and migration in Russell Banks's fiction -- Workings of the spirit, spirit of the workers : migration, labor, and the extended Caribbean in Erna Brodber's Louisiana -- Neoslavery, immigrant labor, and casino capitalism in Cynthia Shearer's The celestial jukebox -- Southern transpacific : narratives of Asian immigration, 1965-2015 -- Epilogue. Transnational American studies with "the South" : Morrison, Matthiessen, Eggers, and Lalami.

Call Number

JFE 18-2717

ISBN

• 9780820351865
• 0820351865

LCCN

2017032683

OCLC

981118365

Author

Bone, Martyn, 1974- author.

Title

Where the new world is : literature about the U.S. South at global scales / Martyn Bone.

Publisher

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New Southern studies

New southern studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-267) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Research Call Number

JFE 18-2717