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 collected editionRichard Gray - Waldemar Zacharasiewicz Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe - Europe in the American South761ISBN-13: 978-3-7001-3954-6 ISBN-13 Online: 978-3-7001-6778-5 Subject Area: Linguistics and Literature refereed - online - print |
Preliminaries page 1
Table of contents page 5
Acknowledgement page 9
Richard Gray - Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Introduction page 11
Separator page - Faulkner and Wolfe
Lothar Hönnighausen
European Culture in Southern Literature: Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner page 33
Peter Lurie
The French Faulkner: Visibility, Absence and Sanctuary's "Lake of Ink" page 51
Dieter Meindl
Modernist Novellas: European Reflections on Thomas Wolfe's Short Novels page 69
Separator page - European Reception and Perspectives page 89
Peter Nicolaisen
Thomas Jefferson's Conflicting Views of Europe page 91
Hans Skei
Southern Literature in Northlight: 20th Century Southern Writers in Norwegian Translation: Reception, Reputation, Affinities page 103
Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Antecedents and Trajectories of Two Twentieth-Century Writers from Georgia in Europe page 115
Separator page - African American Perspectives page 135
Paul Giles
Hemispheric Parallax: Zora Neale Hurston and the Triangulation of Race page 137
Sharon Monteith
How Bigger Mutated: Richard Wright, Boris Vian, and "The bloody paths through which we push logic into dread" page 149
Charles R. Wilson
Richard Wright's Pagan Spain: reading Spain through the American South page 167
Separator page - Reimaging the South from a European Perspective page 179
Susan-Mary Grant
A Study in scarlett O'Hara? The South in the Writings of Arthur Conan Doyle page 181
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi
"The Formidable Question": James's Transatlantic View of the South page 207
Nahem Yousaf
A Southern Sheriff's Revenge: Bertrand Taverbier's Coup de Torchon page 221
Separator page - Welty and Percy page 239
Richard Gray
A Narrative Room of One's Own: Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridgegroom and European Fairy Tale page 241
Dawn Trouard
The Promiscuous Joy of Eudora Welty: Missing Bowen in Mississippi page 257
Arno Heller
Walkner Percy and eric Voegelin's Political Philosophy page 277
Separator page - The French Connection page 291
Owen Robinson
City of Exiles: Unstable Narratives of New Orleans in George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days page 293
Helen Taylor
Paris and New Orleans: The Transatlantic Cultural Legacy of Prostitution page 309
Jacques Pothier
France and the American South: Transatlantic Misreading and Mythmaking page 335
Separator page - Nineteenth-Century Relations page 347
Theo D'Haen
Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain's Modernities page 349
Jan Nordby Gretlund
Mark Twain Abroad page 363
Richard J. Ellis
"Whatever the law permits": Hannah Craft's The Bondwoman's Narrative page 377
Separator page - Faulkner page 395
Barbara Ladd
"Les Amis Myriades et Anonymes à la France de tout le Monde": Créolité and Empire, Difference and indifference, in William Faulkner's A Fable page 397
Noel Polk
War and Modernism in Faulkner's A fable page 409
Karl F. Zender
William Faulkner, New Orleans, and Europe page 419
Separator page - Cultural and Capital Exchange page 437
James C. Cobb
Cavaliers and Capitalists: The Transatlantic South from Mercantilism to Mercedes page 439
Martin Crawford
Old South/New Britain: Cotton, Capitalism, and Anglo-Southern Relations in the Civil War Era page 455
Walter Edgar
European Influence on Pre-Civil War Southern Culture: The Case of South Carolina page 473
Don H. Doyle
The South in the Age of Nationalism page 491
Separator page - Mountain and Folk Culture page 501
Sarah Robertson
The Green, Green Hills of Home: Mining in the Fiction of Appalachia and Wales page 503
Barbara Ching
Happily Ever after in the Marketplace: The Ballads of the Southern Mountains and the Escape from Old Europe page 519
Jill Terry
Transatlantic Folk Exchanges in 1959 - the Revival Year page 533
Separator page - Postwar Fictions page 549
Robert Brinkmeyer
Slavery Old and New: Styron's Sophie's Choice page 551
Suzanne W. Jones
Black Girl in Paris: Shay Youngblodd's Escape from "the last plantation" page 563
A. Robert Lee
Black South, Black Europe: William Demby page 579
List of Contributors page 597