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Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity offers an insightful look at not only an old subject--the US South--but also a relatively new one: the journey out of the South. Adeptly integrating border theory, Southern literary studies, current politics, and personal experience to explore the liminal space between South and 'Notsouth, ' Weaks-Baxter investigates 'how narrative defines and labels not only the movements of people but also moving people themselves, aligns groups of people and divides them, and builds literal walls and breaks them down.' Examining narratives that imagine the South, its boundaries, and what lies beyond it, she illuminates the profound impact of these imaginings on personal, regional, and national identities.--Tanya Bennett, professor of English at University of North Georgia and author of I have been so many people A Study of Lee Smith's Novels

Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity offers an insightful look at not only an old subject--the US South--but also a relatively new one: the journey out of the South. Adeptly integrating border theory, Southern literary studies, current politics, and personal experience to explore the liminal space between South and 'Notsouth, ' Weaks-Baxter investigates 'how narrative defines and labels not only the movements of people but also moving people themselves, aligns groups of people and divides them, and builds literal walls and breaks them down.' Examining narratives that imagine the South, its boundaries, and what lies beyond it, she illuminates the profound impact of these imaginings on personal, regional, and national identities.--Tanya Bennett, professor of English at University of North Georgia and author of ""I have been so many people"" A Study of Lee Smith's Novels

"Leaving the South: Border Crossing Narratives and the Remaking of Southern Identity offers an insightful look at not only an old subject--the US South--but also a relatively new one: the journey out of the South. Adeptly integrating border theory, Southern literary studies, current politics, and personal experience to explore the liminal space between South and 'Notsouth, ' Weaks-Baxter investigates 'how narrative defines and labels not only the movements of people but also moving people themselves, aligns groups of people and divides them, and builds literal walls and breaks them down.' Examining narratives that imagine the South, its boundaries, and what lies beyond it, she illuminates the profound impact of these imaginings on personal, regional, and national identities.--Tanya Bennett, professor of English at University of North Georgia and author of ""I have been so many people"" A Study of Lee Smith's Novels"

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Mary Weaks-Baxter, Roscoe, Illinois, is Andrew Sherratt Professor at Rockford University. She is author of Reclaiming the American Farmer: The Reinvention of a Regional Mythology in Twentieth-Century Southern Writing and coeditor of The History of Southern Women's Literature and Southern Women's Writing: Colonial to Contemporary.

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