{"product_id":"the-white-trash-menace-and-hemispheric-fiction-paperback","title":"The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRamón E. Soto-Crespo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e uncovers a rich archive of \"white trash\" fiction in the Caribbean and its surrounding regions. After the abolition of slavery, affluent white planters underwent a period of identity crisis where wealth no longer maintained their privileges, and yet they did not belong to the group of newly freed peoples. Ramón E. Soto-Crespo analyzes the literary legacy of those who came under the label of \"white trash.\" This book argues that during the mid-twentieth century, \"white trash\" started off as a trope in pulp fiction and subsequently became absorbed into what we now think of as canonical literature. In \u003ci\u003eThe White Trash Menace, \u003c\/i\u003eSoto-Crespo pairs novels from William Faulkner and Jean Rhys with pulp authors such as Edgar Mittelholzer and Kyle Onstott in order to provide an alternate account of the literary development of race and class in the Americas. Together these works constitute a circum-Atlantic, white-trash world of letters: a hemispheric network of decapitalized whiteness that challenges how we imagine literary history by departing from nation-based models of aesthetic development. By providing a genealogy of literary circulation, \u003ci\u003eThe White Trash Menace\u003c\/i\u003e likewise challenges conventional understandings of \"white trash,\" and more broadly challenges our understanding of literature, class, and race in the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRamón E. Soto Crespo is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of \u003ci\u003eMainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53522205442355,"sku":"9780814255681","price":66.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/sKOamIzaWW9780814255681.webp?v=1781966795","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-white-trash-menace-and-hemispheric-fiction-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}