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Swamp Souths - Literary and Cultural Ecologies (Hardcover)
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Swamp Souths - Literary and Cultural Ecologies (Hardcover)
Series: Southern Literary Studies
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Swamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies expands the
geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. Although
the physical environments that form its central subjects are
scattered throughout the southeastern United States, the
Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the
Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp, this evocative collection
challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which
ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global
scales. Across seventeen scholarly essays, along with a critical
introduction and afterword, Swamp Souths introduces new frameworks
for thinking about swamps in the South and beyond, with an emphasis
on subjects including Indigenous studies, ecocriticism,
intersectional feminism, and the tropical sublime. The volume
analyses canonical writers such as William Faulkner, Zora Neale
Hurston, and Eudora Welty, but it also investigates contemporary
literary works by Randall Kenan and Karen Russell, the films Beasts
of the Southern Wild and My Louisiana Love, and music ranging from
swamp rock and zydeco to Beyonce's visual album Lemonade.
Navigating a complex assemblage of places and ecosystems, the
contributors argue with passion and critical rigor for considering
anew the literary and cultural work that swamps do. This dynamic
collection of scholarship proves that swampy approaches to southern
spaces possess increased relevance in an era of climate change and
political crisis.
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