Reconstructing the world : Southern fictions and U.S. imperialisms, 1898-1976 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stecopoulos, Harry
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008.
Subjects:	American literature > Southern States > History and criticism. American literature > 20th century > History and criticism. Southern States > In literature. Literature and history > Southern States > 20th century. Imperialism in literature. Regionalism in literature.

Table of Contents:

The geography of reunion : Thomas Dixon, Charles Chesnutt, and the McKinley expansionists
Up from empire : James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South
"Take your geography and trace it" : W.E.B. Du Bois and the reconstruction of the South
"Members of the whole world" : Carson McCullers's military fictions
Mississippi on the Pacific : William Faulkner and Richard Wright in postwar Asia
Epilogue : Alice Walker and the lost cause.