Contributors

Introduction

PART I: CONTACT TO THE CIVIL WAR
1. Literary and Textual Histories of the Native South. Eric Gary Anderson

2. Before Hypodescent: Whitening Equations in South America and the American South. Ruth Hill

3. The Dying Confession of Joseph Hare (1818): Transatlantic Highwaymen and Southern Outlaws in the Antebellum South. Thomas Ruys Smith

4. Jackson's Villes, Squares, & Frontiers of Democracy. Keith Cartwright

5. Locality and the Serial South. Lloyd Pratt

6. The Long Shadow of Torture in the American South. W. Fitzhugh Brundage

7. Masculine Sentiment, Racial Fetishism, and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum Southern Literature. Michael P. Bibler

PART II: THE CIVIL WAR AND BEYOND
8. Southern Affects: Field and Feeling in a Skeptical Age. Scott Romine

9. Not So Still Waters: Travelers to Florida and the Tropical Sublime. John W. Lowe

10. Indian Knives and Color Lines: Mark Twain from Hannibal to the Jim Crow Raj. Harilaos Stecopoulos

11. Narrative and Counternarrative in The Leopard's Spots and The Marrow of Tradition. Anthony Wilson

12. The Bright Side: African American Women and the Affective Archive of Southern Racial Uplift. Stephen Knadler

PART III: SOUTHERN MODERNISMS
13. " Proffered for your perusal in ring by concentric ring": The South and the World in William Faulkner's Fiction. Owen Robinson

14. Richard Weaver, Lillian Smith, the South, and the World. Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.

15. Arts of Abjection in James Agee, Walker Evans, and Luis Bunuel. Leigh Anne Duck

16. Tennessee Williams and the Burden of Southern Sexuality Studies. Gary Richards

17. Reimagining the South of Richard Wright: The Anti-Protest Writing of Albert Murray, Raymond Andrews, and Ernest Gaines. James W..Coleman

18. Letter-Writing, Authorship, and Southern Women Modernists. Will Brantley

PART IV: AFTER SOUTHERN MODERNISMS: WRITING IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY SOUTH
19. Nature and Spirituality in Contemporary Appalachian Poetry. John Lang

20. Southern Religion's Sexual Charge and the National Imagination. Katherine Henninger

21. Their Confederate Kinfolk: African Americans' Interracial Family Histories. Suzanne W. Jones

22. Mourning, Mockery, and the Post-South: Lars von Trier's Manderlay and Geraldine Brooks's March.. Michael Kreyling

23. Made Things: Structuring Modernity in Southern Poetry. Daniel Cross Turner

24. Four Contemporary Latina/o Writers Ghost the U.S. South. Maria DeGuzman

25. You Don't Have to Be Born There: Immigration and Contemporary Fiction of the U. S.. South. Martyn Bone

26. Asian Americans, Racial Latency, Southern Traces. Leslie Bow

27. The Woundedness of Southern Literature, Looking Away. Minrose Gwin