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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
Subject AreaLinguistics and Literature
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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