ESO Bibliographies: Postsouthern Studies
Postsouthern Studies
Significant Works in Postsouthern Studies
Bone, Martyn. The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2005.
Cobb, James C. Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005.
—. Redefining Southern Culture: Mind and Identity in the Modern South. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1999.
Duck, Leigh Anne. “Postsouthern And (Increasingly) Post-Agrarian.” Contemporary Literature 47.2 (2006): 299-303.
Greeson, Jennifer Rae. Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2010.
Haddox, Thomas F. “Elizabeth Spencer, the White Civil Rights Novel, and the Postsouthern.” Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 65.4 (2004): 561-581.
Henninger, Katherine. “Re-imaging Southern Communities, or, Picturing the Post-South.” Ordering the Façade: Photography and Contemporary Southern Women’s Writing. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2007.
Inge, M. Thomas. “Black Snake Moan as Postsouthern Fable.” Mississippi Quarterly 64.3-4 (2011): 565-572.
Kreyling, Michael. “Fee Fie Faux Faulkner: Parody and Postmodernism in Southern Literature.” The Southern Review 29.1 (1993): 1-15.
—. Inventing Southern Literature. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 1998.
—. The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2010.
McPherson, Tara. Reconstructing Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South. Durham: Duke UP, 2003.
Peacock, James L. Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2007.
Romine, Scott. The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2008.
—. “Where Is Southern Literature? The Practice of Place in a Postsouthern Age.” South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Eds. Suzzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002. 23-43.
Simpson, Lewis P. The Fable of the Southern Writer. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1994.
—. “The Closure of History in a Postsouthern America.” The Brazen Face of History: Studies in the Literary Consciousness in America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1980.
Watson, Jay. “Mapping out a Postsouthern Cinema: Three Contemporary Films.” American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary. Eds. Deborah E. Barker and Kathryn McKee. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2011. 219-52.
Woodward, C. Vann. The Burden of Southern History. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1968.
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