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How the humanities can help us understand globalization and immigration—the paramount realities in the twenty-first-century U.S. South

About the Author

MARTYN BONE is an associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. He is author of The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction, editor of Perspectives on Barry Hannah, and coeditor of Creating and Consuming the American South.

Reviews

The southern question has never seemed so richly global as it does in Martyn Bone’s powerful new book Where the New World Is. Moving from original readings of Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen to pioneering interpretations of Russell Banks and Monique Truong, Bone succeeds brilliantly in weaving together southern literary studies and post-national American studies. Americanists of all kinds will learn a great deal from this important work.
*author of Reconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898–1976*

Martyn Bone's Where The New World Is is the capstone of a generation's worth of scholarship on the American South, the Global South, and all points in between. More than that, it is a sharp-witted, gimlet-eyed exposé of a dazzling array of writers whose work pushes the South offshore. Bone does more than scramble your historic compass; he also leaves you with a sense of where we all need to go next. This book is the future of southern literary criticism.
*author of Seeing Race in Modern America*

The book brilliantly dismantles enduring analytical tools, notably the black/white and North/South binaries. Bone also succeeds in demonstrating that the southern exceptionalism and regionalism have become irrelevant as a result of the transnational turn…while at the same time reaffirming the relevance of the South as a space of dialectical interaction between transnational, regional, and local scales.
*The Journal of Southern History*

Bone’s elegant writing is exhaustively researched and well argued. . . . Where the New World Is is an important and necessary book.
*ALH Online Review*