This timely and incisive study reads contemporary literature and visual culture from the American South through the lens of cultural memory. Rooting texts in their regional locations, the book interrupts and questions the dominant trends in Southern Studies, providing a fresh and nuanced view of twenty-first-century texts.

Christopher Lloyd is Lecturer at London South Bank University, UK.

Introduction: The Region and Beyond: From the South to the Postsouth 1. Memories of Slavery: Museums, Monuments, Novels 2. "There's a Life Here": Hurricane Katrina's Southern Biopolitics 3. What Remains? Sally Mann and the South's Gothic Memories 4. The Road Home: Southern Narratives of Return Conclusion: Beneath the Surface