{"product_id":"look-away-9780822333166","title":"Look Away","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines what happens to our paradigms of the American south if we understand the \"south\" hemispherically, to include Latin America and the Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Look Away! \u003c\/i\u003eis an important collection that expands the vocabularies and national symbol systems that scholars can deploy to think comparatively about the Americas. It is especially useful in breaking the binary between North and South that has so restricted southern literary and historical studies.”—Patricia Yaeger, author of \u003ci\u003eDirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women’s Writing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Uncanny Hybridities \/ Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn \u003cbr\u003e 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEAN \u003cbr\u003e A New World Poetics of Oblivion \/ George B. Handley 25\u003cbr\u003e Delta \u003ci\u003eDesterrados\u003c\/i\u003e: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture \/ Kirsten Silva Gruesz 25 \u003cbr\u003e Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution \/ Jane Landers 80\u003cbr\u003e Martinique\/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity \/ J. Michael Dash 94\u003cbr\u003e Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janet Velazquez, Cuban Women and Confederate Soldier \/ Jesse Aleman 110\u003cbr\u003e Citizenship and Identity in the Exile: Autobiographies of Gustavo Perez Firmat \/ Steven Hunsaker 130\u003cbr\u003e Travel and Transference: V.S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past \/ Leigh Anne Duke 150\u003cbr\u003e 2. RETHINKING RACE AND REGION \u003cbr\u003e Things Fall Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of \u003ci\u003eReal Rock\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Leopard’s Spots \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Scott Romine 175\u003cbr\u003e This Race Which Is Not One: The “More Inextricable Compositeness” of William Faulkner’s South \/ John T. Matthews 201\u003cbr\u003e Richard Wright: From the South to Africa---and Beyond \/ Richard King 227\u003cbr\u003e Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination \/ Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. and Debra Rae Cohen 251\u003cbr\u003e American Films\/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas \/ Lois Parkinson Zamora 268 \u003cbr\u003e 3. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICA \u003cbr\u003e Wonder and the Wounds of “Southern” Histories \/ Stephanie Merrim 311\u003cbr\u003e Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes \/ Wendy B. Faris 333\u003cbr\u003e Cant Matter\/Must Matter: Setting up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction \/ Philip Weinstein 355\u003cbr\u003e \"Wherein the South Differs from the North”: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s A\u003ci\u003ebsalom, Absalom!\u003c\/i\u003e and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude \u003c\/i\u003e\/ Dane Johnson 383\u003cbr\u003e William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing \/ Helen Oakley 405\u003cbr\u003e William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s “Other” Tradition \/ Earl Fitz 419\u003cbr\u003e 4. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTH \u003cbr\u003e Embodying Greater Mexico: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question \/ John-Michael Rivera 451\u003cbr\u003e Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh’s \u003ci\u003eCaballero\u003c\/i\u003e: A Historical Novel \/ Vincent Perez 471\u003cbr\u003e POSDATA \u003cbr\u003e Beyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner \/ Ilan Stavans 495\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 505\u003cbr\u003e Index 511","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406035558743,"sku":"9780822333166","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822333166.jpg?v=1730494321","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/look-away-9780822333166","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}