Race and the Multiple Souths in the Long Nineteenth Century
Approaching the US South as an imagined community with various meanings in different geographical areas and historical periods, FES 17 special issue explores the racialized and gendered representations that emerge from a multiplicity of literary works by American writers of African descent during the long nineteenth century. The focus on the long nineteenth century aims to foreground narratives, interpretive traditions, and theorizations that have tended to result in stereotyped and often derogatory definitions of the South. Written by scholars based on both sides of the Atlantic, the essays grapple with American Souths, European Souths, and speculative Souths, questioning the familiar contrastive North v. South binary and problematizing the long-standing sectional hierarchies that have influenced the interpretation and canonization of African American literature in ways that are still operative in the twenty-first century.
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SPECIAL FOCUS | RACE AND THE MULTIPLE SOUTHS IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
Race and the Multiple Souths in the Long Nineteenth Century: An Introduction
M. Giulia Fabi, John Gruesser, April C. Logan[pp. 1-8]Displacement and Indirection: Prism Life in the Antebellum South
John Ernest[pp. 9-21]Resisting an Inglorious Forgetting: Imperium in Imperio’s Speculative Recollection in an Amnestic Nation’s Persistent Old South
Courtney L. Novosat[pp. 22-36]Blood at the Root: Ida B. Wells’s and Pauline E. Hopkins’s Gothic Souths
Marco Petrelli[pp. 37-51]Charles W. Chesnutt’s The Wife of His Youth: Satire and Passing in the American South
April C. Logan[pp. 52-70]Comparing the European and the U.S. South in Booker T. Washington’s The Man Farthest Down
Michel Huysseune[pp. 71-85]Southern Trajectories in Early Black Feminist Speculative Fiction: Mary Etta Spencer’s The Resentment
M. Giulia Fabi[pp. 86-102]
Interviews
Così mi vedo: testimone, custode della memoria, esiliato che vive al margine del mare, rifugiato nella lingua. Una intervista a Yousef Elqedra
Sana Darghmouni, Yousef Elqedra[pp. 103-111]
Reviews
Thinking the Unthinkable through the Mediterranean
Gennaro Ascione[pp. 113-118]Quale foresta abitare? Tra le pagine di La tempesta e l’orso di Claudia Boscolo
Bianca Battilocchi[pp. 119-122]Ri/produrre l’Italia in Africa. Comprendere il rapporto tra sguardo coloniale e cinematografia attraverso Vedere l’Impero di Gianmarco Mancosu
Federica Piron[pp. 123-128]