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  title info:
    title: Where the new world is
    sub title: literature about the U.S. South at global scales
  name:
    name part: Bone, Martyn
    name part: 1974-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of some eighty years, challenged received readings and understandings of the U.S. South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration (or even internal migration) and economic globalization. The writers discussed by Bone emphasize how migration and labor have reconfigured the region's relation to the nation and a range of transnational scales, hemispheric (Jamaica, the Bahamas, Haiti), transatlantic/Black Atlantic (Denmark, England, Mauritania) and transpacific/global southern (Australia, China, Vietnam). Writers under consideration include Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, John Oliver Killens, Russell Banks, Erna Brodber, Cynthia Shearer, Ha Jin, Monique Truong, Lan Cao, Toni Morrison, Peter Matthiessen, Dave Eggers and Laila Lalami. The book also seeks to resituate southern studies by drawing on theories of "scale" that originated in human geography. In this way, Bone also offers a new paradigm in which the U.S. South is thoroughly engaged with a range of other scales from the local to the global, making both literature about the region and southern studies itself truly transnational in scope.
  table of contents: Preface -- Introduction. the transnational turn in the South -- The extended South of black folk: intraregional and transnational migrant -- Labor in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston -- Transnational/intertextual migrations and U.S. Southern, Danish, and English "folk" identities in Nella Larsen's fiction -- Downsouth, upsouth, global South: migration and the "new world" in John Oliver Killens's writing -- The North-South axis of race, class, and migration in Russell Banks's fiction -- Workings of the spirit, spirit of the workers: migration, labor, and the extended Caribbean in Erna Brodber's Louisiana -- Neoslavery, immigrant labor, and casino capitalism in Cynthia Shearer's The celestial jukebox -- Southern transpacific: narratives of Asian immigration, 1965-2015 -- Epilogue. transnational American studies with "the South": Morrison, Matthiessen, Eggers, and lalami.
  note: Martyn Bone.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-usu--
  subject:
    topic: Globalization in literature
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 20th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: American fiction
    temporal: 21st century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration in literature
  subject:
    topic: Cultural pluralism in literature
  subject:
    geographic: Southern States
    topic: In literature
  classification: PS374.G58 B66 2018
  classification: 813/.540935875
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New southern studies
  identifier: 9780820351865
  identifier: 0820351865
  identifier: 9780820351858 (ebook)LED
  identifier: 2017032683
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 171003
    record change date: 20180501153653.0
    record identifier: in00003914869