Selected papers presented at a meeting held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, Sept. 2011
Includes bibliographical references.
Mister M, Mister I, Mister SSI / Bill Lazenblatt -- From Space to Self: Will Barrett's Travels in Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman / Gérald Préher -- Leaving New York: The Post-9/11 South in Reynolds Price and Jay McInerney / Thomas Ærvold Bjerre -- Cormac McCarthy and the Craftsman Hero / Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr. -- Moveable South: Plantation Memory in Cormac McCarthy's The Road / John T. Matthews -- "Man delights not me": Blood Meridian and the Apocalypse / John Nordby Gretlund -- Suffer Little Children: McCarthy's Lazarillos and the Ordeal of Mobility in the Southern Canon / Jacques Pothier -- Jason as Cajun Saint: The Sound and the Fury on Film / M. Thomas Inge -- Culinary Journey across the Color Line: Foodways and Race in Southern Literature and Motion Pictures / Urzula Niewiadomska-Flis -- Elvis Culture(d), or How the South Got Democratized / Beata Zawadka -- Gone to Washington: Mobilizing the 1968 Poor People's Campaign / Elizabeth Hayes Turner -- Progressive White Catholics in the South and Civil Rights, 1945-1970 / Mark Newman -- Turning South Again: Conjuring Mississippi's Freedom Summer in Sans Souchi, Trinidad / Sharon Monteith -- Intersections of History and Fiction in Thulani Davis's 1959 / Youli Theodosiadou -- From the Old South to New: the Transformation of Southern Religion / David Goldfield -- Hard Road to Salvation: Southern Fundamentalism in Peter Taylor's "The Hand of Emmagene" / Ineke Bockting -- Once Upon a Doctor's Life: Abraham Verghese's Coming of Age in East Tennessee in the Era of AIDS / Nahem Yousaf -- Haitian Connection and the Burden of Southern History in Connie May Fowler's Sugar Cage / Suzanne W. Jones -- Fast Journey from the Slow South: Mobility and Identity in Chris Offutt's The Good Brother / Marcel Arbeit -- Transcending Southern Borders-Writing Home from Europe / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz -- African Americans Moving from the South to the Non-South (1916-1918) / Valeria Gennaro Lerda