Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region

Coffey, Michele Grig

ISBN 10: 0820358770 / ISBN 13: 9780820358772

Published by University of Georgia Press, 2020

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2020. Illustrated. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820358770
• ISBN 13: 9780820358772
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has been going on for some time. Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an ad­vanced understanding of the historical, social, and cultural forces that have helped to shape the U.S. South. However, most of the debates on these subjects have taken place within specific academic disciplines, with few attempts to cross-engage.

Navigating Souths broadens these exchanges by facilitating transdisciplinary conversations about southern studies scholarship. The fourteen original essays in Navigating Souths articulate questions about the significances of the South as a theoretical and literal “home” base for social science and humanities researchers. They also examine challenges faced by researchers who identify as southern studies scholars, as well as by those who live and work in the regional South, and show how researchers have responded to these challenges. In doing so, this book project seeks to reframe the field of southern studies as it is currently being practiced by social science and humanities scholars and thus reshape historical and cultural conceptualizations of the region.

About the Authors

MICHELE GRIGSBY COFFEY is an instructor of history at the University of Memphis. Her work has been published in the edited collection South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Georgia), Louisiana History, and in the Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History.

JODI SKIPPER is an associate professor of anthropology and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. Her work has been published in the Journal of Community Archaeology and Heritage, the Southern Quarterly, the Black Scholar, Community Development, and Sociology of Race and Ethnicity.

MELANIE BENSON TAYLOR is professor of English and creative writing and of Native American and Indigenous studies at Dartmouth College. She is the editor of The Cambridge History of Native American Literature and The Norton Critical Edition of Faulkner’s Light in August, and the author of The Indian in American Southern Literature; Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause; and Disturbing Calculations: The Economics of Identity in Postcolonial Southern Literature, 1912-2002 (both Georgia).

CHARLES REAGAN WILSON is director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and a professor of history at the University of Mississippi. He is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and author of Baptized in Blood (Georgia).