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Globalizing the U.S. South: Modernity and Modernism

Globalizing the U.S. South: Modernity and Modernism The U.S. South in Global Contexts 719 sion that still afflicts Haiti? Human evil is denuded of its all-too-natural consequences and the vast machinery of environmental degradation goes about its work quietly, steadily, and undisturbed. Like artificially constructed and hermetically sealed regions and nations in the New World, the left hand of social good is left not knowing what the right hand of sustainability does. If we are to assess the meaning of the U.S. South as region within a broader global context, we need a form of literary criticism that takes the best of postcolonial and ecocritical thought, both of which are potentially well suited to trace the motions of globalization and the particulars that it ignores. This would perhaps lead to a clearer understanding of cross-pollination, both metaphorically and ecologically, and to a more mature sense of place that does not feel it has to choose between land and society. I hope it is not recklessly naive to believe that literary criticism can be relevant to the operations of such concepts as place, region, and nation, one person and one place at a time. Humanities and Latin American Studies Brigham Young University John T. Matthews Globalizing http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Literature Duke University Press

Globalizing the U.S. South: Modernity and Modernism

Matthews, John T.
American Literature , Volume 78 (4) – Dec 1, 2006
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The U.S. South in Global Contexts 719 sion that still afflicts Haiti? Human evil is denuded of its all-too-natural consequences and the vast machinery of environmental degradation goes about its work quietly, steadily, and undisturbed. Like artificially constructed and hermetically sealed regions and nations in the New World, the left hand of social good is left not knowing what the right hand of sustainability does. If we are to assess the meaning of the U.S. South as region within a broader global context, we need a form of literary criticism that takes the best of postcolonial and ecocritical thought, both of which are potentially well suited to trace the motions of globalization and the particulars that it ignores. This would perhaps lead to a clearer understanding of cross-pollination, both metaphorically and ecologically, and to a more mature sense of place that does not feel it has to choose between land and society. I hope it is not recklessly naive to believe that literary criticism can be relevant to the operations of such concepts as place, region, and nation, one person and one place at a time. Humanities and Latin American Studies Brigham Young University John T. Matthews Globalizing

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