South to a new place : region, literature, culture / edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith ; foreword by Richard Gray.

Foreword: Inventing communities, imagining places: some thoughts on southern self-fashioning / Richard Gray
Introduction: South to new places / Sharon Monteith, Suzanne W. Jones
PART I. SURVEYING THE TERRITORY
Where is southern literature? The practice of place in a postsouthern age / Scott Romine
Dismantling the monolith: Southern places
past, present, and future / Barbara Ladd
Race and intimacy: Albert Murray's South to a very old place / Carolyn M. Jones
Southern culture on the skids: punk, retro, narcissism, and the burden of southern history / Jon Smith
Larry Brown's Joe and the uses and abuses of the "region" concept / Paul Lyons
PART II. MAPPING THE REGION
I'll take my land: contemporary southern agrarians / Suzanne W. Jones
Toni Morrison's revisionary "nature writing": Song of Solomon and the blasted pastoral / Wes Berry
Native American literature, ecocriticism, and the South: the inaccessible worlds of Linda Hogan's Power / Eric Gary Anderson
Queer locations, queer transformations: Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits / Robert McRuer
Into the suburbs: Richard Ford's sportswriter novels and the place of southern fiction / Matthew Guinn
Placing the postsouthern "international city": Atlanta in Tom Wolfe's A man in full / Martyn Bone
Outsiders with inside information: the Vietnamese in the fiction of the contemporary American South / Maureen Ryan
Postmodern southern vacation: vacation advertising, globalization, and southern regionalism / Amy J. Elias
PART III. MAKING GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
Italy and the United States: the politics and poetics of the "southern problem" / Michael Kreyling
North, south, east, west: constructing region in southern and East German literature / Christine Gerhardt
"Of the same blood as this America and its history": William Faulkner and Spanish American literature / Deborah Cohn
South and Britain: Celtic cultural connections / Helen Taylor
Afterword: South of the mind / Diane Roberts.