| Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of A U.S. Region Contributor(s): Coffey, Michele Grigsby (Editor), Skipper, Jodi (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0820351075 ISBN-13: 9780820351070 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $64.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 975.007 |
| LCCN: 2016055853 |
| Series: New Southern Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6" W x 9" (1.43 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has been going on for some time. Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an ad-vanced understanding of the historical, social, and cultural forces that have helped to shape the U.S. South. However, most of the debates on these subjects have taken place within specific academic disciplines, with few attempts to cross-engage. Navigating Souths broadens these exchanges by facilitating transdisciplinary conversations about southern studies scholarship. The fourteen original essays in Navigating Souths articulate questions about the significances of the South as a theoretical and literal "home" base for social science and humanities researchers. They also examine challenges faced by researchers who identify as southern studies scholars, as well as by those who live and work in the regional South, and show how researchers have responded to these challenges. In doing so, this book project seeks to reframe the field of southern studies as it is currently being practiced by social science and humanities scholars and thus reshape historical and cultural conceptualizations of the region. Contributors: Alix Chapman, Rico D. Chapman, Michele Grigsby Coffey, Kirsten A. Dellinger, Leigh Anne Duck, Gwendolyn Ferreti, Kathryn Green, Robert Greene II, John Hayes, Jeffrey T. Jackson, Anne Lewis, Katie McKee, Kathryn Radishofski, Emily Satterwhite, Jodi Skipper, Jon Smith, Melanie Benson Taylor, Annette Trefzer, Daniel Cross Turner, Charles Reagan Wilson |
Contributor Bio(s): Taylor, Melanie Benson: - MELANIE BENSON TAYLOR is an assistant professor of English and Native American studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 and Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause (both Georgia).Richardson, Riche: - RICHÉ RICHARDSON is an associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis.Smith, Jon: - JON SMITH is an associate professor of English at Simon Fraser University. He is coeditor of Look Away! The U.S. South in New World Studies and is coeditor with Riché Richardson of The New Southern Studies series.Wilson, Charles Reagan: - CHARLES REAGAN WILSON is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and a professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and author of Baptized in Blood (Georgia).Coffey, Michele Grigsby: - MICHELE GRIGSBY COFFEY is an instructor of history at the University of Memphis. Her work has been published in the edited collection South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Georgia), Louisiana History, and in the Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History.Skipper, Jodi: - JODI SKIPPER is an assistant professor of anthropology and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. Her work has been published in the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, the Southern Quarterly, the Black Scholar, Community Development, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity. |