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Toward a New Southern Regionality

Toward a New Southern Regionality Toward a New Southern Regionality by Peggy Prenshaw South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002. xxiii + 262 pp. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties. By Suzanne W. Jones. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. xii + 346 pp. $45.95. Defi ning the U.S. South, often in the service of constructing surveys, overviews, critiques and new canons of southern literature, is an old and still thriving enterprise. One long established approach to "What is the South?" has been to formulate definitions in terms of "region" and "regionalism." But, of course, one gets trapped in tautological definitions of these terms, forced to fall back upon stipulated meanings of regionality, with exclusions and inclusions that are often more ideological than evidential. In his Southern Aberrations (2000), Richard Gray directly took on the "problems of regionalism" by studying writers who were not only "aberrant" (northern) Americans by virtue of their southernness, but also outsiders in many respects to the southern regional mainstream. There have long been many Souths, all of them owing to human narratives arising from the need to "place" the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Southern Literary Journal University of North Carolina Press

Toward a New Southern Regionality

Prenshaw, Peggy Whitman
The Southern Literary Journal , Volume 38 (2) – May 31, 2006
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Toward a New Southern Regionality by Peggy Prenshaw South to a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture. Edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon Monteith. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2002. xxiii + 262 pp. $85.00 cloth, $34.95 paper. Race Mixing: Southern Fiction since the Sixties. By Suzanne W. Jones. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004. xii + 346 pp. $45.95. Defi ning the U.S. South, often in the service of constructing surveys, overviews, critiques and new canons of southern literature, is an old and still thriving enterprise. One long established approach to "What is the South?" has been to formulate definitions in terms of "region" and "regionalism." But, of course, one gets trapped in tautological definitions of these terms, forced to fall back upon stipulated meanings of regionality, with exclusions and inclusions that are often more ideological than evidential. In his Southern Aberrations (2000), Richard Gray directly took on the "problems of regionalism" by studying writers who were not only "aberrant" (northern) Americans by virtue of their southernness, but also outsiders in many respects to the southern regional mainstream. There have long been many Souths, all of them owing to human narratives arising from the need to "place" the

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