02540cmm a2200397 4500 214806326 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 101109s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780807138137 electronic bk. 0807138134 electronic bk. (OCoLC)680036348 N$T eng N$T EBLCP YDXCP E7B OCLCQ MHW OCLCQ TxAuBib Kreyling, Michael, 1948- The South that wasn't there [electronic resource] : postsouthern memory and history / Michael Kreyling. Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (xi, 223 p.) Southern literary studies Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: memory, culture, identity -- "Something of an obstacle": remembering slavery in Morrison's Beloved -- Robert Penn Warren: the real southerner and the "hypothetical negro" -- Arms and the man: Southern honor and the memory of Vietnam -- Haiti: phantom Southern memory in Faulkner and Madison Smartt Bell -- Parody, memory, and copyright: the Southern memory market -- Nostalgia, alternate history, and the future of Southern memory. Once, history and "the South" dwelt in close proximity. Representations of the South in writing and on film assumed "everybody knew" what had happened in place and time to create the South. Today, our vision of the South varies, and there is less "there there" than ever before. In The South That Wasn't There, Michael Kreyling explores a series of literary situations in which memory and history seem to work in odd and problematic ways. Looking at Toni Morrison's masterpiece Beloved, he tests the viability of applying Holocaust and trauma studies to the poetics and politics of remembering slavery. American literature Southern States History and criticism. American literature. Group identity in literature. Regionalism in literature. History and criticism. In literature. Intellectual life. Literature. LITERARY CRITICISM American General. Southern States Intellectual life. Southern States In literature. Southern States. Electronic books. Southern literary studies. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=344805 EBSCOhost