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  1. The South that wasn't there
    postsouthern memory and history
    Author: Kreyling, Michael
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge

    Location:
    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Georg Forster-Gebäude / USA-Bibliothek
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    810.9975 KRE
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780807136485; 0807136484
    RVK Categories: HU 1540
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: Kollektives Gedächtnis; Literatur; Kulturelle Identität <Motiv>
    Scope: XI, 223 S., 23x16x2 cm
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    Literaturverz. S. 207 - 218
  2. The South that wasn't there
    postsouthern memory and history
    Author: Kreyling, Michael
    Published: ©2010
    Publisher:  Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0807136484; 0807138134; 9780807136485; 9780807138137
    Series: Southern literary studies
    Subjects: American literature; History and criticism; In literature; Intellectual life; Southern States; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; Group identity in literature; Intellectual life; Literature; Regionalism in literature; Literatur; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Kulturelle Identität; Literatur; American literature; Group identity in literature; Regionalism in literature; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Kulturelle Identität <Motiv>; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 223 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: memory, culture, identity -- "Something of an obstacle": remembering slavery in Morrison's Beloved -- Robert Penn Warren: the real southerner and the "hypothetical negro" -- Arms and the man: Southern honor and the memory of Vietnam -- Haiti: phantom Southern memory in Faulkner and Madison Smartt Bell -- Parody, memory, and copyright: the Southern memory market -- Nostalgia, alternate history, and the future of Southern memory

    Once, history and "the South" dwelt in close proximity. Representations of the South in writing and on film assumed "everybody knew" what had happened in place and time to create the South. Today, our vision of the South varies, and there is less "there there" than ever before. In The South That Wasn't There, Michael Kreyling explores a series of literary situations in which memory and history seem to work in odd and problematic ways. Looking at Toni Morrison's masterpiece Beloved, he tests the viability of applying Holocaust and trauma studies to the poetics and politics of remembering slavery