Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales

by Martyn Bone

Book Overview

Where the New World Is assesses how fiction published since 1980 has resituated the U.S. South globally and how earlier twentieth-century writing already had done so in ways traditional southern literary studies tended to ignore. Martyn Bone argues that this body of fiction has, over the course of some eighty years, challenged received readings and understandings of the U.S. South as a fixed place largely untouched by immigration (or even internal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820357871
• ISBN13: 9780820357874
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"