| Calypso Magnolia Contributor(s): Lowe, John Wharton (Author) |
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ISBN: 1469628880 ISBN-13: 9781469628882 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press OUR PRICE: $108.90 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 810.997 |
| LCCN: 2015022647 |
| Series: New Directions in Southern Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.96 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders. Focusing on writers and literatures from the Deep South and Gulf states in relation to places including Mexico, Haiti, and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of southern literature as encompassing the circumCaribbean, a dynamic framework within which to reconsider literary history, genre, and aesthetics. Considering thematic concerns such as race, migration, forced exile, and colonial and postcolonial identity, Lowe contends that southern literature and culture have always transcended the physical and political boundaries of the American South. Lowe uses cross-cultural readings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including William Faulkner, Martin Delany, Zora Neale Hurston, George Lamming, Cristina Garcia, Edouard Glissant, and Madison Smartt Bell, among many others, to make his argument. These literary figures, Lowe argues, help us uncover new ways of thinking about the shared culture of the South and Caribbean while demonstrating that southern literature has roots even farther south than we realize. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lowe, John Wharton: - John Wharton Lowe is the Barbara Methvin Professor of English at the University of Georgia. |