Description:
In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to modern life in general.
The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks and refutes standard binary thinking--First World/Third World, self/other, for instance--that postcolonial studies revealed as a flawed rhetorical structure for analyzing empire. Instead, Keywords promotes a holistic way of thinking that begins with southern studies but extends beyond.Brief description: JENNIFER RAE GREESON is an associate professor of English at the University of Virginia.
Review Quotes: The collection effectively and persuasively makes clear that there is nothing fixed or stable about the South. . . . The essays in Keywords for Southern Studies each point out the bins we have written ourselves into when we essentialize.--Sarah E. Gardner "The Journal of Southern History"