The Most Read Books of the 2024 Reading Challenge (So Far)

New Southern Studies Series

24 primary works • 24 total works
After decades of being both celebrated and dismissed as the exception within American exceptionalism, the South has emerged as central to debates about America’s identity historically and culturally, in fields such as American studies, African American studies, cultural studies, and postcolonial theory. Engaged with these debates from the outset, t…
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta
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3.52 · 21 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2007 · 8 editions
This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gende…

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    Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002
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    0.00     · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 3 editions
    In Thomas Wolfe’s Look Homeward, Angel, Margaret L…

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    The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism
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    3.82     · 17 Ratings · published 2006 · 4 editions
    How could liberalism and apartheid coexist for dec…

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    Grounded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World
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    3.38     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2007 · 8 editions
    The world is flat? Maybe not, says this paradigm-s…

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    American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary
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    3.50     · 4 Ratings · published 2011 · 5 editions
    Employing innovations in media studies, southern c…

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    Southern Civil Religions: Imagining the Good Society in the Post-Reconstruction Era
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    4.12     · 8 Ratings · published 2011 · 7 editions
    In the aftermath of the Civil War, the Lost Cause …

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    Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause
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    3.50     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 7 editions
    In Reconstructing the Native South , Melanie Benso…

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    Apples and Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America
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    3.67     · 6 Ratings · published 2012 · 5 editions
    Apples and Ashes offers the first literary history…

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    Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985
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    5.00     · 6 Ratings · published 2012 · 7 editions
    Jay Watson argues that southern literary studies h…

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    Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies
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    3.22     · 9 Ratings · published 2013 · 7 editions
    With Latining America , Claudia Milian proposes th…

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    Finding Purple America: The South and the Future of American Cultural Studies
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    3.50     · 12 Ratings · published 2013 · 4 editions
    The new southern studies has had an uneasy relatio…

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    The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner's Art
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2013 · 4 editions
    A bold book, built of close readings, striking in …

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    Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs
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    0.00     · published 2013 · 5 editions
    Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black nov…

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    Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways: Travels in Deep Southern Time, Circum-Caribbean Space, Afro-creole Authority
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    3.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2013 · 5 editions
    “We’re seeing people that we didn’t know exist,” t…

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    Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2015 · 5 editions
    Sounding the Color Line explores how competing und…

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    Borges's Poe: The Influence and Reinvention of Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish America
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2016 · 4 editions
    Edgar Allan Poe’s image and import shifted during …

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    Eudora Welty's Fiction and Photography: The Body of the Other Woman
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2016 · 2 editions
    Drawing on the context in which the protection of …

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    Keywords for Southern Studies
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    4.22     · 9 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2016 · 4 editions
    In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Ro…

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    The Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory
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    4.00     · 4 Ratings · 3 editions
    Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associate…

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    Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region
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    4.40     · 5 Ratings · 4 editions
    The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing…

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    Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales
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    0.00     · 4 editions
    Where the New World Is assesses how fiction publis…

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    Red States: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies
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    5.00     · 2 Ratings · 4 editions
    Red States uses a regional focus in order to exami…

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    The Whole Machinery: The Rural Modern in Cultures of the U.S. South, 1890-1946
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    A familiar story holds that modernization radiates…

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    Look Abroad, Angel: Thomas Wolfe and the Geographies of Longing
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    0.00     · 4 editions
    Born in Asheville, North Carolina, Thomas Wolfe (1…

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