The postsouthern sense of place in contemporary fiction / Martyn Bone.

Part 1. Capital, land, and place from agrarianism to postsouthernism. Not a mere real estate development : capital, land, and the agrarians' proprietary ideal ; (Re)inventing the (post)southern sense of place
Part 2. The postsouthern turn : Warren, Percy, Ford, and the redevelopment of place. Toward a postsouthern sense of place : Robert Penn Warren's A place to come to and Walker Percy's The moviegoer ; Neo-Faulknerism or postsouthernism? : labor, parody, and the problem of place in Richard Ford's A piece of my heart ; Land and literary speculations : the postsouthern world-as-text in Richard Ford's The sportswriter ; New Jersey real estate and the postsouthern sense of place : Richard Ford's Independence day
Part 3. Placing the postsouthern international city : the Atlanta conundrum. Locating a nonplace : Atlanta's absence from Southern literature and the emergence of a postsouthern international city ; Urban renewal and mixed-use developments : place and race in Anne Rivers Siddons's Peachtree road and Downtown ; Placing the postsouthern international city : Atlanta in Tom Wolfe's A man in full ; Capitalist abstraction and the body politics of place : Toni Cade Bambara's Those bones are not my child
Epilogue: Against the agrarian grain, taking the transnational turn.