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Rather than a media history of the region or a history of southern
media, Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South formulates
a critical methodology for studying the continuous reinventions of
regional space across media platforms. This innovative collection
demonstrates that structures of media undergird American
regionalism through the representation of a given geography's
peoples, places, and ideologies. It also outlines how the region
answers back to the national media by circulating ever-shifting
ideas of place via new platforms that allow for self-representation
outside previously sanctioned media forms. Remediating Region
recognizes that all media was once new media. In examining how
changes in information and media modify concepts of region, it both
articulates the virtual realities of the twenty-first-century U.S.
South and historicizes the impact of "new" media on a region that
has long been mediated. Eleven essays examine media moments ranging
from the nineteenth century to the present day, among them
Frederick Douglass's utilization of early photography, video game
representations of a late capitalist landscape, rural queer
communities' engagement with social media platforms, and
contemporary technologies focused on revitalizing Indigenous
cultural practices. Interdisciplinary in scope and execution,
Remediating Region argues that on an increasingly networked planet,
concerns over the mediated region continue to inform how audiences
and participants understand their entree into a global world
through local space.
Red States examines how the recurrent use of Native American
history in southern cultural and literary texts produces ideas of
""feeling southern"" that have consequences for how present-day
conservative political discourses resonate across the United
States. Assembling a newly constituted archive that includes
theatrical and musical performances, pre-Civil War literatures, and
contemporary novels, Gina Caison argues that notions of Native
American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing
how audiences in the region came to imagine indigeneity through
texts ranging from the nineteenth-century Cherokee Phoenix to the
Mardi Gras Indian narratives of Treme. Policy issues such as Indian
Removal, biracial segregation, land claim, and federal termination
frequently correlate to the audience consumption of such texts, and
therefore the reception histories of this archive can be tied to
shifts in the political claims of--and political possibilities
for--Native people of the U.S. South. This continual appeal to the
political issues of Indian Country ultimately generates what we see
as persistent discourses about southern exceptionality and
counternationalism.
Rather than a media history of the region or a history of southern
media, Remediating Region: New Media and the U.S. South formulates
a critical methodology for studying the continuous reinventions of
regional space across media platforms. This innovative collection
demonstrates that structures of media undergird American
regionalism through the representation of a given geography's
peoples, places, and ideologies. It also outlines how the region
answers back to the national media by circulating ever-shifting
ideas of place via new platforms that allow for self-representation
outside previously sanctioned media forms. Remediating Region
recognizes that all media was once new media. In examining how
changes in information and media modify concepts of region, it both
articulates the virtual realities of the twenty-first-century U.S.
South and historicizes the impact of "new" media on a region that
has long been mediated. Eleven essays examine media moments ranging
from the nineteenth century to the present day, among them
Frederick Douglass's utilization of early photography, video game
representations of a late capitalist landscape, rural queer
communities' engagement with social media platforms, and
contemporary technologies focused on revitalizing Indigenous
cultural practices. Interdisciplinary in scope and execution,
Remediating Region argues that on an increasingly networked planet,
concerns over the mediated region continue to inform how audiences
and participants understand their entree into a global world
through local space.
Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of
white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in
the U.S. South. Gina Caison argues that popular misconceptions of
Native American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by
tracing how non-Native audiences in the region came to imagine
indigeneity through the presentation of specious histories
presented in regional literary texts, and she examines how
Indigenous people work against these narratives to maintain
sovereign land claims in their home spaces through their own
literary and cultural productions. As Caison demonstrates, these
conversations in the U.S. South have consequences for how
present-day conservative political discourses resonate across the
United States. Assembling a newly constituted archive that includes
regional theatrical and musical performances, pre-Civil War
literatures, and contemporary novels, Caison illuminates the U.S.
South's continued investment in settler colonialism and the
continued Indigenous resistance to this paradigm. Ultimately, she
concludes that the region is indeed made up of red states, but
perhaps not in the way readers initially imagine.
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