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Originally published in 1992, Nationalisms and Sexualities
addresses questions of how notions of identity are shaped by
discussions of nationalism and sexuality. The book looks at a
variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, on a wide
range of geographical regions and historical moments. The volume
departs from social scientific paradigms that treat nation and
sexuality as discrete and autonomous entities. Its contributors
respond instead to emerging issues that redefine the horizons of
what is globally considered today as "the political": how the
formation of sexual, gendered, racial, and/or class identities have
contributed to the formation of sexual, gendered, racial, and/or
class identities, and vice versa; how technologies of
representation play a role in the constitution of national and
sexual identities; how colonialism and postcolonialism have altered
consolidations of national and sexual identities.
Originally published in 1992, Nationalisms and Sexualities
addresses questions of how notions of identity are shaped by
discussions of nationalism and sexuality. The book looks at a
variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives, on a wide
range of geographical regions and historical moments. The volume
departs from social scientific paradigms that treat nation and
sexuality as discrete and autonomous entities. Its contributors
respond instead to emerging issues that redefine the horizons of
what is globally considered today as "the political": how the
formation of sexual, gendered, racial, and/or class identities have
contributed to the formation of sexual, gendered, racial, and/or
class identities, and vice versa; how technologies of
representation play a role in the constitution of national and
sexual identities; how colonialism and postcolonialism have altered
consolidations of national and sexual identities.
The story of southern writing--the Dixie Limited, if you will--runs
along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about
community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white
patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the
rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to
understand southern literature and culture.
For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal
a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the
strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily
trauma of underpaid labor and the workings of racial and gender
politics in the unnoticed yet all too familiar everyday. Yaeger
also excavates a southern fascination with dirt--who owns it, who
cleans it, and whose bodies are buried in it.
Yaeger's brilliant, theoretically informed readings of Zora Neale
Hurston, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Flannery
O'Connor, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty (among many others)
explode the mystifications of southern literary tradition and forge
a new path for southern studies.
The book won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award given by
the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.
How has our relation to energy changed over time? What differences
do particular energy sources make to human values, politics, and
imagination? How have transitions from one energy source to
another-from wood to coal, or from oil to solar to whatever comes
next-transformed culture and society? What are the implications of
uneven access to energy in the past, present, and future? Which
concepts and theories clarify our relation to energy, and which
just get in the way? Fueling Culture offers a compendium of
keywords written by scholars and practitioners from around the
world and across the humanities and social sciences. These keywords
offer new ways of thinking about energy as both the source and the
limit of how we inhabit culture, with the aim of opening up new
ways of understanding the seemingly irresolvable contradictions of
dependence upon unsustainable energy forms. Fueling Culture brings
together writing that is risk-taking and interdisciplinary, drawing
on insights from literary and cultural studies, environmental
history and ecocriticism, political economy and political ecology,
postcolonial and globalization studies, and materialisms old and
new. Keywords in this volume include: Aboriginal, Accumulation,
Addiction, Affect, America, Animal, Anthropocene, Architecture,
Arctic, Automobile, Boom, Canada, Catastrophe, Change, Charcoal,
China, Coal, Community, Corporation, Crisis, Dams, Demand,
Detritus, Disaster, Ecology, Electricity, Embodiment, Ethics,
Evolution, Exhaust, Fallout, Fiction, Fracking, Future, Gender,
Green, Grids, Guilt, Identity, Image, Infrastructure, Innervation,
Kerosene, Lebenskraft, Limits, Media, Metabolism, Middle East,
Nature, Necessity, Networks, Nigeria, Nuclear, Petroviolence,
Photography, Pipelines, Plastics, Renewable, Resilience, Risk,
Roads, Rubber, Rural, Russia, Servers, Shame, Solar, Spill,
Spiritual, Statistics, Surveillance, Sustainability, Tallow, Texas,
Textiles, Utopia, Venezuela, Whaling, Wood, Work For a full list of
keywords in and contributors to this volume, please go to:
http://ow.ly/4mZZxV
Faced with Eudora Welty's preference for the oblique in literary
performances, some have assumed that Welty was not concerned with
issues of race, or even that she was perhaps ambivalent toward
racism. This collection counters those assumptions as it examines
Welty's handling of race, the color line, and Jim Crow segregation
and sheds new light on her views about the patterns,
insensitivities, blindness, and atrocities of whiteness.
Contributors to this volume show that Welty addressed whiteness and
race in her earliest stories, her photography, and her first novel,
Delta Wedding. In subsequent work, including The Golden Apples, The
Optimist's Daughter, and her memoir, One Writer's Beginnings, she
made the color line and white privilege visible, revealing the
gaping distances between lives lived in shared space but separated
by social hierarchy and segregation. Even when black characters
hover in the margins of her fiction, they point readers toward
complex lives, and the black body is itself full of meaning in her
work. Several essays suggest that Welty represented race, like
gender and power, as a performance scripted by whiteness. Her black
characters in particular recognize whiteface and blackface as
performances, especially comical when white characters are unaware
of their role play. Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race also makes
clear that Welty recognized white material advantage and black
economic deprivation as part of a cycle of race and poverty in
America and that she connected this history to lives on either side
of the color line, to relationships across it, and to an uneasy
hierarchy of white classes within the presumed monolith of
whiteness. Contributors: Mae Miller Claxton, Susan V. Donaldson,
Julia Eichelberger, Sarah Ford, Jean C. Griffith, Rebecca Mark,
Suzanne Marrs, Donnie McMahand, David McWhirter, Harriet Pollack,
Keri Watson, Patricia Yaeger.
Recent debates about globalism have usefully transformed the
positioning and the cultural geography of studies of the American
South. Once marked by tensions between the national and the
regional, southern studies is now increasingly characterized by
tensions between the local and the global. This special issue of
American Literature features interdisciplinary and comparative work
that focuses on the U.S. South in global contexts and attempts to
reconceptualize the South from various theoretical, literary, and
cultural perspectives. The new southern studies promises to be less
preoccupied with patriarchal whiteness and rural idyll and more
concerned with understanding the U.S. South as a construction of
border crossings of every sort. Featured essays examine the
political, economic, and social effects of globalization on the
geopolitical locale and literary productions of the region. Each
seeks to redefine the geographic and epistemological boundaries of
the U.S. South by linking it to other "Souths" globally. The issue
opens with a collection of manifestos given at the recent
conference "The U.S. South in Global Context." These unique pieces
offer variant perspectives on a common theme. Touching on history,
community, migration, globalizing modernization, and even Wal-Mart,
these sixteen briefs remind the reader that the American South is
somewhere between the modern cosmopolitan and the historical rural
spheres. One contributor examines how modernization has spread
unevenly throughout the region and how it has affected recent
immigrants to southern hybrid culture. Another engages in a
comparative exercise between the U.S. South and Latin America,
addressing questions of postcolonialism. Other contributors reflect
on southern distinctiveness, southern literature, and southern
colonial life. Included in the issue is a collection of original
and review essays focused geographically on still lower latitudes:
investigations of the Deep South and certain Caribbean cultures,
and comparisons of the U.S. South to the underprivileged global
South.
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