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"Although the physical environments that form its central subjects are scattered throughout the southeastern United States--the Atchafalaya, the Okefenokee, the Mississippi River delta, the Everglades, and the Great Dismal Swamp--this ... collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales. Across seventeen scholarly essays, along with a critical introduction and afterword, [the book] introduces new frameworks for thinking about swamps in the South and beyond, with emphasis on subjects including Indigenous studies, ecocriticism, intersectional feminism, and the tropical sublime"--
About the author
Kirstin L. Squint is associate professor of English at High Point University and holds the Whichard Visiting Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities at East Carolina University. She is the author of
LeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature.
Eric Gary Anderson, associate professor of English at George Mason University, is the author of
American Indian Literature and the Southwest: Contexts and Dispositions. With Taylor Hagood and Daniel Cross Turner, he coedited
Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture.
Taylor Hagood, professor of American literature at Florida Atlantic University, is the author of
Faulkner's Imperialism: Space, Place, and the Materiality of Myth and
Faulkner, Writer of Disability.
Anthony Wilson, associate professor of English at LaGrange College, is the author of
Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture and
Swamp: Nature and Culture.
Summary
Expands the geographical scope of scholarship about southern swamps. This evocative collection challenges fixed notions of place and foregrounds the ways in which ecosystems shape cultures and creations on both local and global scales.
