Cultural circulation : dialogues between Canada and the American South

Acknowledgements . . 9
Introduction . . 11

OUVERTURE
My Love Affair with Shrevlin McCannon . . 23

I. ACADIANS AND CANADIANS
Et in Acadia Ego: Some Versions of the Pastoral in the Cajun Ethnic Revival . . 37
"Beyond the Bayou": Sociocultural Spaces in Kate Chopin's Louisiana Short Stories . . 51
Northeast by South: Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha and Antonine Maillet's Acadia . . 67

II. TRANSMIGRATIONS
Audubon Goes North . . 77
Stowe, the South, Canada, and Sadism . . 99
From Roots to Routes: The Dialogic Relation between Alex Haley's Roots (1976) and Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes (2007) . . 119
Flights to Canada: Jacob Lawrence, Ishmael Reed, and Lawrence Hill . . 135
The Bridge from Mississippi's Freedom Summer to Canada: Pearl Cleage's Bourbon at the Border . . 155
Metropolis and Hinterland: Faulkner and MacLeod . . 171

III. REWRITINGS AND INFLUENCES
Re-Writing the Grimms: Eudora Welty and Margaret Atwood . . 183
Hard Beauty. The Confluence of Eudora Welty and Alice Munro: Mississippi-South and Ontario-South Portraits of the 1930s . . 191
Parallel Spiritual Worlds: Alice Munro Country and the American South . . 231
Crisscrossing the Continent: From Black Mountain to Vancouver . . 255

IV. CIRCULATING GENRES AND THE EMERGENCE OF A TRANSCONTINENTAL POSTMODERN
Two Nations, One Genre? The Beginnings of the Modernist Short Story in the United States and Canada . . 277
Canada/American South in the Short Story: Flannery O'Connor - Jack Hodgins - Leon Rooke . . 291
Voice Not Place: Leon Rooke Makes a Success in Canada . . 307
I, Canadian: Elizabeth Spencer's Montreal . . 317
Michael Ondaatje's New Orleans in Coming Through Slaughter . . 333
Culinary Transgressions: Food Practices and Constructions of Female Identity in Gail Anderson-Dargatz's The Cure for Death by Lightning and Fannie Flagg's Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe . . 351

ENVOI
South by Northwest . . 367

List of Contributors . . 381
Index . . 387