Introduction : uncanny hybridities / New world poetics of oblivion / Delta Desterrados : antebellum New Orleans and new world print culture / Slave resistance on the southeastern frontier : fugitives, maroons, and banditti in the age of revolution / Martinique/Mississippi : Edouard Glissant and relational insularity / Crossing the Mason-Dixon Line in drag : the narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban woman and Confederate soldier / Citizenship and identity in the exile autobiographies of Gustavo Perez Firmat / Travel and transference : V. S. Naipaul and the plantation past / Things falling apart : the postcolonial condition of Red Rock and The Leopard's Spots / This race which is not one : the "more inextricable compositeness" of William Faulkner's South / Richard Wright : from the South to Africa-- and beyond / Forward into the past : California and the contemporary white southern imagination / American films/American fantasies : moviegoing and regional identity in literature of the Americas / Wonder and the wounds of "southern" histories / Southern economies of excess : narrative expenditure in William Faulkner and Carlos Fuentes / Cant matter/must matter : setting up the loom in Faulknerian and postcolonial fiction / "Wherein the South differs from the North" : tracing the noncosmopolitan aesthetic in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude / William Faulkner and the Cold War : the politics of cultural marketing / William Faulkner, James Agee, and Brazil : the American South in Latin American literature's "other" tradition / Embodying greater Mexico : Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and the reconstruction of the Mexican question / Remembering the hacienda : history and memory in Jovita Gonzalez and Eve Raleigh's Caballero : a Historical Novel / Beyond translation : Jorge Luis Borges revamps William Faulkner