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Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe - Europe in the American South

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Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe - Europe in the American South

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-3954-6
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-6778-5
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Preliminaries

1

Table of contents

5

Acknowledgement

9

Richard Gray, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Introduction

11

Separator page - Faulkner and Wolfe

Lothar Hönnighausen

European Culture in Southern Literature: Thomas Wolfe and William Faulkner

33

Peter Lurie

The French Faulkner: Visibility, Absence and Sanctuary's "Lake of Ink"

51

Dieter Meindl

Modernist Novellas: European Reflections on Thomas Wolfe's Short Novels

69

Separator page - European Reception and Perspectives

89

Peter Nicolaisen

Thomas Jefferson's Conflicting Views of Europe

91

Hans Skei

Southern Literature in Northlight: 20th Century Southern Writers in Norwegian Translation: Reception, Reputation, Affinities

103

Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Antecedents and Trajectories of Two Twentieth-Century Writers from Georgia in Europe

115

Separator page - African American Perspectives

135

Paul Giles

Hemispheric Parallax: Zora Neale Hurston and the Triangulation of Race

137

Sharon Monteith

How Bigger Mutated: Richard Wright, Boris Vian, and "The bloody paths through which we push logic into dread"

149

Charles R. Wilson

Richard Wright's Pagan Spain: reading Spain through the American South

167

Separator page - Reimaging the South from a European Perspective

179

Susan-Mary Grant

A Study in scarlett O'Hara? The South in the Writings of Arthur Conan Doyle

181

Rosella Mamoli Zorzi

"The Formidable Question": James's Transatlantic View of the South

207

Nahem Yousaf

A Southern Sheriff's Revenge: Bertrand Taverbier's Coup de Torchon

221

Separator page - Welty and Percy

239

Richard Gray

A Narrative Room of One's Own: Eudora Welty's The Robber Bridgegroom and European Fairy Tale

241

Dawn Trouard

The Promiscuous Joy of Eudora Welty: Missing Bowen in Mississippi

257

Arno Heller

Walkner Percy and eric Voegelin's Political Philosophy

277

Separator page - The French Connection

291

Owen Robinson

City of Exiles: Unstable Narratives of New Orleans in George Washington Cable's Old Creole Days

293

Helen Taylor

Paris and New Orleans: The Transatlantic Cultural Legacy of Prostitution

309

Jacques Pothier

France and the American South: Transatlantic Misreading and Mythmaking

335

Separator page - Nineteenth-Century Relations

347

Theo D'Haen

Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain's Modernities

349

Jan Nordby Gretlund

Mark Twain Abroad

363

Richard J. Ellis

"Whatever the law permits": Hannah Craft's The Bondwoman's Narrative

377

Separator page - Faulkner

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

397

Noel Polk

War and Modernism in Faulkner's A fable

409

Karl F. Zender

William Faulkner, New Orleans, and Europe

419

Separator page - Cultural and Capital Exchange

437

James C. Cobb

Cavaliers and Capitalists: The Transatlantic South from Mercantilism to Mercedes

439

Martin Crawford

Old South/New Britain: Cotton, Capitalism, and Anglo-Southern Relations in the Civil War Era

455

Walter Edgar

European Influence on Pre-Civil War Southern Culture: The Case of South Carolina

473

Don H. Doyle

The South in the Age of Nationalism

491

Separator page - Mountain and Folk Culture

501

Sarah Robertson

The Green, Green Hills of Home: Mining in the Fiction of Appalachia and Wales

503

Barbara Ching

Happily Ever after in the Marketplace: The Ballads of the Southern Mountains and the Escape from Old Europe

519

Jill Terry

Transatlantic Folk Exchanges in 1959 - the Revival Year

533

Separator page - Postwar Fictions

549

Robert Brinkmeyer

Slavery Old and New: Styron's Sophie's Choice

551

Suzanne W. Jones

Black Girl in Paris: Shay Youngblodd's Escape from "the last plantation"

563

A. Robert Lee

Black South, Black Europe: William Demby

579

List of Contributors

597