Facets of the American South

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Facets of the American South
GÉRALD PRÉHER AND FRÉDÉRIQUE SPILL
PART I
IMAGES OF THE SOUTH IN POPULAR CULTURE AND LITERATURE

Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Corben, and the Southern Gothic in the Graphic Narrative
M. THOMAS INGE

The Vicious Circle: “White Trash” Mythology in Dorothy Allison’s “River of Names” HANA ULMANOVA AND ZUZANA JOSKOVÁ
Colson Whitehead’s Multifaceted Mode of Storytelling: Bridging Myths, the History of the South and Popular Culture of the Digital Age in John Henry Days
FRANÇOISE CLARY

Beasts of the Southern Wild in Shattered Mirrors: Writing after Katrina
JACQUES POTHIER

PART II
THE POWERS OF PLACE

Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico: From Displacement in Space to the Space of Displacement ELISABETH LAMOTHE
“A Small, One Might Say Almost Claustrophobic World”: Kinship and the Urban South in Madeleine L’Engle’s Ilsa
SUZANNE BRAY

A Peculiar Sense of Place: The Fascinating Side of New Orleans in Elizabeth Spencer’s Fiction STÉPHANIE MAERTEN
Facets of the South in Toni Morrison’s Home and Jazz and Eudora Welty’s “Flowers for Marjorie” and “Music from Spain”
PEARL AMELIA MCHANEY

Edward P. Jones’s D.C., Where a Southern Past Informs the Present
AMÉLIE MOISY

PART III
MEMORY AND IDENTITY

Peter Taylor’s Art of Storytelling in “A Spinster’s Tale’ and ‘The Old Forest”
JADWIGA MASZEWSKA

Revisiting Slavery Through a Contemporary Lens:Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata
YOULI THEODOSIADOU

Negotiating Family Past in David Bradley’s The Chaneysville Incident and Octavia Butler’s Kindred
PATRYCJA KURJATTO RENARD

Short-Lived, yet Long Remembered: Exhilaration and Other Escape Strategies in Ron Rash’s The Risen
FREDERIQUE SPILL

PART IV
RACIAL STRIFE

“The Celebration of a Gaudy Illusion”: Juneteenth and Black Texans after the Great War ELIZABETH HAYES TURNER
The Mississippi Summer Project of 1964 through the Eyes of Freedom Summer’s Northern Clergymen
MARK NEWMAN

“It took an old woman and two children for that”: Minority in William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust
STÉPHANIE EYROLLES SUCHET

Revisiting the Mammy Image in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help and Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman
SUSANA MARÍA JIMÉNEZ-PLACER

PART V
VISIONS OF THE SOUTH

“The only earth we will ever have”: Early Twentieth Century Southern Women’s Clubs as Forerunners of Environmental Reforms in the Contemporary Globalized World
VALERIA GENNARO LERDA

The Absurd in the South: The Case of Flannery O’Connor
MARCEL ARBEIT

Reasonable Use of the Unreasonable: The Supernatural in Reynolds Price’s Love and Work SIMONE VAUTHIER
Toni Morrison’s Paradise and the Ghosts of Reconstruction
SUSAN V. DONALDSON

Minimal Maneuvers between Dystopia and Utopia in Two Stories by Breece D’J Pancake
INEKE JOLINK

The American South in Denmark: The Visual Art of William H. Johnson
CLARA JUNCKER

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