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Forum: What's New in Southern Studies – And Why Should We Care?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2014

BRIAN WARD
BRIAN WARD*
Affiliation:
Northumbria University
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Abstract

In this forum, seven established scholars of the US South, working from a variety of institutional and intellectual bases, discuss the latest developments in southern studies, connecting them to broader trends within American studies and in their own home disciplines, particularly literature, cultural studies, and history. Critically engaging with recent work in the New Southern Studies, the participants consider the importance – or otherwise – of recent theoretical, especially transnational and interdisciplinary, moves within the field of southern studies. In the process, the contributions, individually and collectively, offer a provocative assessment of what has been really innovative and of lasting significance in the field over the past decade. Equally important, the essays contemplate the topics, time frames and analytical techniques that might drive important research in both southern and American studies in the future.

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Journal of American Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , August 2014 , pp. 691 - 733
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014 

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4 Ibid., xi.

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