Undead souths : the gothic and beyond in southern literature and culture / edited by Eric Gary Anderson, Taylor Hagood, and Daniel Cross Turner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Southern literary studiesPublication details: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2015Description: ix, 308 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780807161074
  • 0807161071
  • 080716108X
  • 9780807161081
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PS 261 .U45 2015
Contents:
Confederacies of undead imagination : going south through wastelands to Jonestown / Keith Cartwright -- The fall of the house of Po' Sandy : Poe, Chesnutt, and southern undeadness / Eric Gary Anderson -- What remains where : Civil War poetry and photography across 150 years / Elizabeth Bradford Frye and Coleman Hutchison -- Gray ghosts : remediating the Confederate undead / Daniel Cross Turner -- Melville's zombies, north and south / Sascha Morrell -- Topographical ghosts : the archival architecture of old New Orleans / Sarah Hirsch -- Faulkner's doom : the undead inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha / melanie Benson Taylor -- Faulkner's deathways : the race and space of mourning / Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder -- Of flesh and bones : incarnations of the silenced past in William Faulkner's and Erskine Caldwell's early southern gothic short stories / Elsa Charl�ety -- Monstrous plantations : White zombie and the horrors of whiteness / Amy Clukey -- When dead men talk : Emmett Till, southern pasts, and present demands / Brian Norman -- Second life : savage operations in Cormac McCarthy's undead south / Susan Edmunds -- Last roads taken : Robert Frost, Cormac McCarthy, and dying worlds / Bryan Giemza -- Undead genres/living locales : gothic legacies in The true meaning of pictures and Winter's bone / Leigh Anne Duck -- Burying the (un)dead and healing the living : Choctaw women's power in LeAnne Howe's novels -- The indigenous uncanny : spectral genealogies in LeAnne Howe's fiction / Annette Trefzer -- Crossin' the log : death, regionality, and race in Jeremy Love's Bayou / Rain Prud'homme C. Gom�ez -- "Life refusing to end" : the transformative gothic in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night / Jameela F. Dallis -- "More dead than living" : Randall Kenan's monstrous community / Wade Newhouse -- Going to ground : the undead in contemporary southern popular culture media and writing / Taylor Hagood -- Making darkness visible : an afterword and an appreciation / Susan V. Donaldson.
Summary: Examines physical, symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms of undeadness in a variety of media and historical periods.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-291) and index.

Confederacies of undead imagination : going south through wastelands to Jonestown / Keith Cartwright -- The fall of the house of Po' Sandy : Poe, Chesnutt, and southern undeadness / Eric Gary Anderson -- What remains where : Civil War poetry and photography across 150 years / Elizabeth Bradford Frye and Coleman Hutchison -- Gray ghosts : remediating the Confederate undead / Daniel Cross Turner -- Melville's zombies, north and south / Sascha Morrell -- Topographical ghosts : the archival architecture of old New Orleans / Sarah Hirsch -- Faulkner's doom : the undead inhabitants of Yoknapatawpha / melanie Benson Taylor -- Faulkner's deathways : the race and space of mourning / Elizabeth Rodriguez Fielder -- Of flesh and bones : incarnations of the silenced past in William Faulkner's and Erskine Caldwell's early southern gothic short stories / Elsa Charl�ety -- Monstrous plantations : White zombie and the horrors of whiteness / Amy Clukey -- When dead men talk : Emmett Till, southern pasts, and present demands / Brian Norman -- Second life : savage operations in Cormac McCarthy's undead south / Susan Edmunds -- Last roads taken : Robert Frost, Cormac McCarthy, and dying worlds / Bryan Giemza -- Undead genres/living locales : gothic legacies in The true meaning of pictures and Winter's bone / Leigh Anne Duck -- Burying the (un)dead and healing the living : Choctaw women's power in LeAnne Howe's novels -- The indigenous uncanny : spectral genealogies in LeAnne Howe's fiction / Annette Trefzer -- Crossin' the log : death, regionality, and race in Jeremy Love's Bayou / Rain Prud'homme C. Gom�ez -- "Life refusing to end" : the transformative gothic in Shani Mootoo's Cereus blooms at night / Jameela F. Dallis -- "More dead than living" : Randall Kenan's monstrous community / Wade Newhouse -- Going to ground : the undead in contemporary southern popular culture media and writing / Taylor Hagood -- Making darkness visible : an afterword and an appreciation / Susan V. Donaldson.

Examines physical, symbolic, psychological, and cultural forms of undeadness in a variety of media and historical periods.

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