""Look Away! "is an important collection that expands the vocabularies and national symbol systems that scholars can deploy to think comparatively about the Americas. It is especially useful in breaking the binary between North and South that has so restricted southern literary and historical studies."--Patricia Yaeger, author of "Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing"

Acknowledgments xiIntroduction: Uncanny Hybridities / Jon Smith and Deborah Cohn >1. THE U.S. SOUTH AND THE CARIBBEANA New World Poetics of Oblivion / George B. Handley 25Delta Desterrados: Antebellum New Orleans and New World Print Culture / Kirsten Silva Gruesz 25Slave Resistance on the Southeastern Frontier: Fugitives, Maroons, and Banditti in the Age of Revolution / Jane Landers 80Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and Relational Insularity / J. Michael Dash 94Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in Drag: The Narrative of Loreta Janet Velazquez, Cuban Women and Confederate Soldier / Jesse Aleman 110Citizenship and Identity in the Exile: Autobiographies of Gustavo Perez Firmat / Steven Hunsaker 130Travel and Transference: V.S. Naipaul and the Plantation Past / Leigh Anne Duke 1502. RETHINKING RACE AND REGIONThings Fall Apart: The Postcolonial Condition of Real Rock and The Leopard’s Spots / Scott Romine 175This Race Which Is Not One: The “More Inextricable Compositeness” of William Faulkner’s South / John T. Matthews 201Richard Wright: From the South to Africa---and Beyond / Richard King 227Forward into the Past: California and the Contemporary White Southern Imagination / Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. and Debra Rae Cohen 251American Films/American Fantasies: Moviegoing and Regional Identity in Literature of the Americas / Lois Parkinson Zamora 2683. WILLIAM FAULKNER AND LATIN AMERICAWonder and the Wounds of “Southern” Histories / Stephanie Merrim 311Southern Economies of Excess: Narrative Expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes / Wendy B. Faris 333Cant Matter/Must Matter: Setting up the Loom in Faulknerian and Postcolonial Fiction / Philip Weinstein 355"Wherein the South Differs from the North”: Tracing the Noncosmopolitan Aesthetic in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude / Dane Johnson 383William Faulkner and the Cold War: The Politics of Cultural Marketing / Helen Oakley 405William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil: The American South in Latin American Literature’s “Other” Tradition / Earl Fitz 4194. FROM PLANTATION TO HACIENDA: GREATER MEXICO AND THE U.S. SOUTHEmbodying Greater Mexico: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the Reconstruction of the Mexican Question / John-Michael Rivera 451Remembering the Hacienda: History and Memory in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero: A Historical Novel / Vincent Perez 471POSDATABeyond Translation: Jorge Luis Borges Revamps William Faulkner / Ilan Stavans 495Contributors 505Index 511