Keywords for Southern Studies (The New Southern Studies) - Hardcover

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general. The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refutes standard binary thinking-First World/Third World, self/other, for instance-that postcolonial studies revealed as a flawed rhetorical structure for analyzing empire. Instead, Keywords promotes a holistic way of thinking that begins with southern studies but extends beyond.

Scott Romine is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA and the author of The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction. Jennifer Rae Greeson is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia, USA and the author of Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature.