The Weird South: Ecologies of Unknowing in Postplantation Literature

by Melanie Benson Taylor

How do we read southern literature in a postplantation, postregional, and posthuman moment? How do we address the urgent contemporary catastrophes of the Anthropocene in these newly leveled landscapes? Put simply, how do we parse the levels of human responsibility--both for apocalypse and for deliverance--in contexts where settler-colonial and racial capitalist histories dramatically shape our reality?

Reading modern and contemporary southern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820373842
• ISBN13: 9780820373843
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 112 Pages