Аннотация:cholars of American literature-indeed of any national literature-be advised: though study of southern literature and culture may be increasingly ghettoized in academe, 1 recent work in this field provides a crucial model for reconceptualizing traditional notions of nation, region, and the role of place in a "globalized" America whose borders seem suddenly (really always have been) permeable, transnational, and in flux.Breaking away from a narrow association of regionalism with sectionalism, of place with stasis and the "autochthonous ideal," and (more or less) eager to apply the insights of postcolonial theory to its always contested, multicultural, inherently decentered subject, southern studies in the new millennium has seen a flowering of critical reconfigurings, including Robert Brinkmeyer's
