Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America
and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics
that mark the South as exceptional within the United
States-including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave
trade-are common to most of the Americas, Look Away! points to
postcolonial studies as perhaps the best perspective from which to
comprehend the U.S. South. At the same time it shows how, as part
of the United States, the South-both center and margin, victor and
defeated, and empire and colony-complicates ideas of the
postcolonial. The twenty-two essays in this comparative,
interdisciplinary collection rethink southern U.S. identity, race,
and the differences and commonalities between the cultural
productions and imagined communities of the U.S. South and Latin
America. Look Away! presents work by respected scholars in
comparative literature, American studies, and Latin American
studies. The contributors analyze how writers-including the
Martinican Edouard Glissant, the Cuban-American Gustavo Perez
Firmat, and the Trinidad-born, British V. S. Naipaul-have engaged
with the southern United States. They explore William Faulkner's
role in Latin American thought and consider his work in relation to
that of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges. Many essays
re-examine major topics in southern U.S. culture-such as race,
slavery, slave resistance, and the legacies of the past-through the
lens of postcolonial theory and postmodern geography. Others
discuss the South in relation to the U.S.-Mexico border. Throughout
the volume, the contributors consistently reconceptualize U.S.
southern culture in a way that acknowledges its postcolonial status
without diminishing its distinctiveness. Contributors. Jesse
Aleman, Bob Brinkmeyer, Debra Cohen, Deborah Cohn, Michael Dash,
Leigh Anne Duck, Wendy Faris, Earl Fitz, George Handley, Steve
Hunsaker, Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Dane Johnson, Richard King, Jane
Landers, John T. Matthews, Stephanie Merrim, Helen Oakley, Vincent
Perez, John-Michael Rivera, Scott Romine, Jon Smith, Ilan Stavans,
Philip Weinstein, Lois Parkinson Zamora
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