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The white trash menace and hemispheric fiction /

Traces the transnational circulation of white trash characters and fiction in pulp fiction and canonical literatures of the Americas.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soto-Crespo, Ramón E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Spanish American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Poor whites in literature.
Latin American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Working class whites in literature.
Whites in literature.
Comparative literature > Latin American and American.
Comparative literature > American and Latin American.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: White trash, decapitalization, and literary circulation
  • Faulkner's "Porto Rico": circulation, white trash, and the Caribbean
  • Circum-Atlantic trash: despised forms and postwar Caribbean fiction
  • Trash travels: white cockroaches in circum-Atlantic literature
  • Archipelagoes of white debt: indentured trash in circum-Atlantic fiction
  • Hemispheric trash: a cultural paradox
  • Appendix: Writers of trash fiction.