{"product_id":"the-white-trash-menace-and-hemispheric-fiction-9780814255681","title":"The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction","description":"\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 After the abolition of slavery, affluent white planters underwent a period of identity crisis where wealth no longer maintained their privileges, and yet they did not belong to the group of newly freed peoples. Ram n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Soto-Crespo, Ramón E.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814255681\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"Ram\u0026#243;n E. Soto-Crespo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32746615963723,"sku":"9780814255681","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_153465d0-18e6-4fc7-93dc-d1d577d103f6.jpg?v=1597721314","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-white-trash-menace-and-hemispheric-fiction-9780814255681","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}