The New Southern Studies
After decades of being both celebrated and dismissed as the exception within American exceptionalism, the South is emerging as central to debates in fields ranging from American Studies and African American Studies to cultural studies and postcolonial theory. Engaged with these debates from the outset, the new Southern Studies, as Houston A. Baker Jr. named the field, thus only secondarily reinvigorates the old. Rather, as its scholars look at the South afresh, their chief aim is a floor-to-ceiling rethinking of some of the central ideas of the last twenty years of critical theory: objecthood, identity, space, nation, region, abjection, the body, empire. The books in this interdisciplinary, methodologically rigorous, and iconoclastic series will, as a result, engage scholars and students in a wide variety of fields.Books in this series
American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
Edited by Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South
From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
Riché Richardson
Disturbing Calculations
The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912–2002
Melanie R. Benson
Grounded Globalism
How the U.S. South Embraces the World
James L. Peacock
The Nation’s Region
Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism
Leigh Anne Duck
Series Advisory Board
Houston A. Baker Jr.
Vanderbilt University
Jennifer Greeson
University of Virginia
Trudier Harris
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
Tara McPherson
University of Southern California
John T. Matthews
Boston University
Scott Romine
University of North Carolina,
Greensboro