Christopher Lloyd

Corporeal Legacies in the US South (eBook, PDF)

Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319962054
• Artikelnr.: 53675700

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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