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The white trash menace and hemispheric fiction
Title
The white trash menace and hemispheric fiction / Ramón E. Soto-Crespo.
ISBN
9780814214213
0814214215
9780814255681
081425568X
9780814277621
0814277624
Publication
Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2020]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
Physical Description
xvi, 195 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Summary
"Traces the transnational circulation of white trash characters and fiction in pulp fiction and canonical literatures of the Americas"-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 15, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.
Contents
Introduction: White trash, decapitalization, and literary circulation
Faulkner's "Porto Rico": circulation, white trash, and the Caribbean
Circum-Atlantic trash: despised forms and postwar Caribbean fiction
Trash travels: white cockroaches in circum-Atlantic literature
Archipelagoes of white debt: intentured trash in circum-Atlantic fiction
Hemispheric trash: a cultural paradox
Appendix: Writers of trash fiction.
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