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Mapping the New American South: New Developments in Southern Writing and Criticism
Author(s) -
Mackay Polina
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2005.00105.x
Subject(s) - criticism , politics , space (punctuation) , literary criticism , literature , history , psychology , art , political science , linguistics , law , philosophy
This essay assesses the continued interest in the American South as a distinct geographical, socio‐political, cultural and literary space. It explores representations of the South in young contemporary writer Poppy Z. Brite, and cross‐references this new imagined South with recent developments in Southern criticism.