Calypso magnolia: : the crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern literature

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Label

Calypso magnolia: : the crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern literature

Title remainder

the crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern literature

Statement of responsibility

John Wharton Lowe

Creator

• Lowe, John Wharton

Author

• Lowe, John Wharton

Subject

• American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism
• Caribbean Area -- In literature
• Caribbean literature -- History and criticism
• Electronic books

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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 and Gulf states in relation to places including Mexico, Haiti, and Cuba, Lowe reconfigures the geography of southern literature as encompassing the "circumCaribbean," a dynamic framework within which to reconsider literary history, genre, and aesthetics. Considering thematic concerns such as race, migration, forced exile, and colonial and postcolonial identity, Lowe contends that southern literature and culture have always transcended the physical and political boundaries of the American South. Lowe uses cross-cultural readings of nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers, including William Faulkner, Martin Delany, Zora Neale Hurston, George Lamming, Cristina Garcia, Edouard Glissant, and Madison Smartt Bell, among many others, to make his argument. These literary figures, Lowe argues, help us uncover new ways of thinking about the shared culture of the South and Caribbean while demonstrating that southern literature has roots even farther south than we realize

Member of

• New directions in southern studies
• hoopla (Digital media service)

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

810.9/975

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

New directions in southern studies

Target audience

adult