Calypso Magnolia: The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature

by John Wharton Lowe

Book Overview

In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by writers of the American South and the Caribbean. Lowe demonstrates that a tendency to separate literary canons by national and regional boundaries has led critics to ignore deep ties across highly permeable borders. Focusing on writers and literatures from the Deep South...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469626209
• ISBN13: 9781469626208
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"