Corporeal Legacies in the Us South: Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture

ISBN-13: 9783030071554 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 226 str.

Christopher Lloyd

Spis treści

1. Introduction: The Body of/in Memory

2. The Plantation to the Penitentiary: Monster’s Ball and Bodies at their Limits

3. The Plantation to the Apocalypse: Zombies and the Non/human in The Walking Dead and A Questionable Shape

4. The Home of Jim Crow: Toilets and Matter in Kathryn Stockett’s The Help

5. “Everything deserve to live”: Animals, Hurricane Katrina, and Salvage the Bones

6. “Fabric of the universe is comin’ unraveled”: Beasts of the Southern Wild, from Flesh to Planet

7. Conclusion: Corporealizing Southern Studies

O autorze

Christopher Lloyd is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is author of Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South (2015), and numerous special issues, journal articles and book chapters on race and memory in contemporary US literature and culture.