Nationalism And The Color Line In George W. Cable, Mark Twain, And William Faulkner

Nationalism and the Color Line in George W. Cable, Mark Twain, and William Faulkner is a strikingly original study of works by three postbellum novelists with strong ties to the Deep South and Mississippi Valley. In it, Barbara Ladd argues that writers like Cable, Twain, and Faulkner cannot be read exclusively within the context of a nationalistically defined "American" literature, but must also be understood in light of the cultural legacy that French and Spanish colonialism bestowed on the Deep South and the Mississippi River Valley, specifically with respect to the very different ways these colonialist cultures conceptualized race, color, and nationality.Ladd, Barbara is the author of 'Nationalism And The Color Line In George W. Cable, Mark Twain, And William Faulkner', published 1997 under ISBN 9780807130490 and ISBN 0807130494.