{"product_id":"the-south-that-wasnt-there-postsouthern-memory-and-history-9780807136485","title":"The South That Wasn't There: Postsouthern Memory and History","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce, 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.\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. He then turns to Robert Penn Warren's grapplings with his personal memory of racism, which culminated in his attempt to confront the evil directly in his book Who Speaks for the Negro? In a chapter on the court contest between Margaret Mitchell's estate and Alice Randall over Randall's parody The Wind Done Gone, Kreyling treats neglected issues such as the status of literary sequels and parody in an age of advanced commodification of the South.\u003cbr\u003eKreyling's searching inquiry into the intersection of the southern warrior narrative and the shocks dealt America by the Vietnam War uncovers what appears to be the deliberate yet unconscious use of southern Civil War memory in a time of national identity crisis. He follows that up with a comparison of Faulkner's appropriation of Caribbean memory in Absalom, Absalom! and Madison Smartt Bell's in his trilogy on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian revolution.\u003cbr\u003eFinally, Kreyling examines some new manifestations of southern memory, including science fiction as embodied in Octavia Butler's novel Kindred, \"mockumentary\" in Kevin Willmott's film C.S.A., and postmodern cinema parody in Lars Von Trier's Manderlay.\u003cbr\u003eLively and frequently confrontational, The South That Wasn't There offers a thought-provoking reexamination of our literary conceptions about the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Kreyling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Literary Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.1lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807136485","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46836610990217,"sku":"9780807136485","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_b42cb6cd-6360-4ae3-aab2-16918879481f.jpg?v=1780440935","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-south-that-wasnt-there-postsouthern-memory-and-history-9780807136485","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}