Reconstructing the World by Harilaos Stecopoulos

Reconstructing the World by Harilaos Stecopoulos

The unending tragedy of Reconstruction, wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, is the utter inability of the American mind to grasp its... national and worldwide implications. And yet the long shadow of Reconstruction's failure has loomed large in the...

This short but rich book explores the ways that southern authors, including Thomas Dixon, Charles Chestnutt, WE. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Carson McCullers, William Faulkner, and Richard Wright grappled with the issues of region, race, gender, and social order that were produced between the 1898 inauguration of American empire and the Cold War. Deftly straddling history and literary criticism, Harilaos Stecopoulos roots his interpretation in well-entrenched cultural studies and in the newer approaches of transnational American studies.... Adopting a 'transnational notion of region' for his case studies, Stecopoulos offers a new exploration of these works' spatial, gendered, and racial implications in response to American empire. Reconstructing the World presents an important connection between southern literature, culture, issues of racial ad regional identities, and related (but often ignored) global systems of ideology, economy, and power.

* Journal of American History *

Harilaos Stecopoulos is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. He is the coeditor, with Michael Uebel, of Race and the Subject of Masculinities.

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ISBN 13	9780801475023
ISBN 10	0801475023
Titel	Reconstructing the World
Autor	Harilaos Stecopoulos
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2008-12-15
Seitenanzahl	216
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