Contributes new knowledge to Southern Studies and twenty-first-century Southern culture while also particularizing the fields of psychoanalysis, Animal Studies, posthumanism, and Environmental Studies in the South Extends the various discourses of embodiment into interdisciplinary alignment, delineating an original space in Southern Studies and providing a model for grounding and combining the variety of critical modes in a geographical and historical setting Articulates new theorizations of race and race-relations, but also provides expansive and original frameworks for reconceiving the past's structuring effects on the present

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Christopher Lloyd is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is author of Rooting Memory, Rooting Place: Regionalism in the Twenty-First-Century American South (2015), and numerous special issues, journal articles and book chapters on race and memory in contemporary US literature and culture.

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1 Introduction: The Body of/in Memory.- 2 The Plantation to the Penitentiary: Monster's Ball and Bodies at their Limits.- 3 The Plantation to the Apocalypse: Zombies and the Non/human in The Walking Dead and A Questionable Shape .- 4 The Home of Jim Crow: Toilets and Matter in Kathryn Stockett's The Help .- 5 Everything deserve to live: Animals, Hurricane Katrina, and Salvage the Bones .- 6 Fabric of the universe is comin' unraveled: Beasts of the Southern Wild , from Flesh to Planet.- 7 Conclusion: Corporealizing Southern Studies