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In this innovative book, Martyn Bone explores perspectives of the southern "sense of place" and examines it in a national and global context. Bone assesses work of Neo-Agrarian writers William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, as well as more recent responses to the impact of capitalist spatial development on the South-including the self-declared "international city" of Atlanta. Close readings of novels by Robert Penn Warren, Walker Percy, Richard Ford, Anne Rivers Siddons, Tom Wolfe, and Toni Cade Bambara illuminate ideas about capital, land, labor, and class while introducing southern literary studies into a wider debate. Bone concludes with works of Harry Crews and Barbara Kingsolver that suggest the southern sense of place may not be only southern, but diversely transnational.
About the author
Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature and head of the Center for Transnational American Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is also the editor of
Perspectives on Barry Hannah, as well as the coeditor of
The American South in the Atlantic World and
Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South.
