eng 

PS261 .S73 2008 

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Stecopoulos , Harry 

Reconstructing the world : Southern fictions and U.S. imperialisms, 1898-1976 / Harilaos Stecopoulos 

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008 

Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2008. 

2008 

x, 203 p. : ill. ; 24 cm 

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-198) and index 

The geography of reunion : Thomas Dixon, Charles Chesnutt, and the McKinley expansionists -- Up from empire : James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and the Jim Crow South -- "Take your geography and trace it" : W.E.B. Du Bois and the reconstruction of the South -- "Members of the whole world" : Carson McCullers's military fictions -- Mississippi on the Pacific : William Faulkner and Richard Wright in postwar Asia -- Epilogue : Alice Walker and the lost cause 

American literature -- Southern States -- History and criticism 

Southern States -- In literature