Rooting Memory, Rooting Place : Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South

Christopher Lloyd, Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First Century American South, 2015, Palgrave Macmillan. Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. Under embargo until 4 June 2018. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137499882This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts.Final Accepted Versio