Keywords for Southern Studies (The New Southern Studies Ser.)

Synopsis

In Keywords For Southern Studies, The Editors Have Compiled An Eclectic Collection Of Essays Which Address The Fluidity And Ever-changing Nature Of Southern Studies By Adopting A Transnational, Interdisciplinary Focus. This Book Is Termed 'critical' Because The Essays In It Are Pertinent To Modern Life Beyond The World Of 'southern Studies.' The Non-binary, Non-traditional Approach Of Keywords Unmasks And Refuses The Binary Thinking -- First World/third World, Self/other -- That Postcolonial Studies Has Taught Us Is The Worst Rhetorical Structure Of Empire. Keywords Promotes A Holistic Way Of Thinking That Starts With Southern Studies But Extends Even Further-- Introduction / Jennifer Rae Greeson And Scott Romine -- Regimes. Incarceration / Houston A. Baker Jr -- Plantation / Matthew Pratt Guterl -- Nation / Jennifer Rae Greeson -- Empire / Harilaos Stecopoulos -- Labor / Ted Atkinson -- Segregation / Leigh Anne Duck -- Places. Black Atlantic / Keith Cartwright -- Tropics / Natalie J. Ring -- Haiti / Anna Brickhouse -- America / Deborah Cohn -- Region / Wanda Rushing -- Global South / Eric Lott -- Peoples. Creole/creolization / Shirley Elizabeth Thompson -- Black And White / Suzanne W. Jones -- Native / Eric Gary Anderson -- Latin / Claudia Milian -- Folk / Erich Nunn -- Queer/quare / Michael P. Bibler -- Approaches. Consumption / Scott Romine -- Performance / Jayna Brown -- Book History / Coleman Hutchison -- Literature / Thomas F. Haddox -- Ecology/environment / Steven E. Knepper -- Structures Of Feeling. Fetish / John T. Matthews -- Fundamentalism / Briallen Hopper -- Exceptionalism / Sylvia Shin Huey Chong -- Romance/abjection / Riché Richardson -- Modernism/modernity / Melanie Benson Taylor -- Postsouthern / Martyn Bone -- Trauma / Jon Smith. Edited By Scott Romine & Jennifer Rae Greeson. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 367-398) And Index.