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Rooting Memory, Rooting Place

Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century (ALTC)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Christopher Lloyd
    Pages 1-18
  3. Memories of Slavery: Museums, Monuments, Novels

    • Christopher Lloyd
    Pages 19-51
  4. The Road Home: Southern Narratives of Return

    • Christopher Lloyd
    Pages 117-147
  5. Conclusion

    • Christopher Lloyd
    Pages 149-161
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 163-200

About this book

This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts.

Reviews

"Rooting Memory, Rooting Place is a well-crafted work that makes important interventions into ongoing debates in Southern Studies about the extent to which the South can still be read and understood as a distinctive place in the contexts of twenty-first-century postmodernism and globalization." - Michael Bibler, Associate Professor of English, Louisiana State University, USA

"This is an engaging, insightful, and compelling book that evidences an admirable commitment to the field of Southern Studies and related branches of American Studies and Memory Studies." - Anna Hartnell, Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

About the author

Christopher Lloyd is Lecturer at London South Bank University, UK.

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