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Article: Cohn, Deborah N. 1999. History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press. $39.95 hc. $19.95 sc. 236 pp.(Review)
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- March 22, 2001
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Deborah Cohn's book outlines a new geography in Inter-American literature, one which transcends linguistic boundaries between the English and Spanish languages to link the modern literature of the South of the United States with the writers of the Latin-American contemporary renaissance. The unwitting conquistador of this new territory, Cohn claims, was William Faulkner. To major Hispanic American writers he introduced a South that shared with Latin America a plantation system whose decline led to rural backwardness; a condition that brought about a sense of defeat and dispossession and a trail of political and cultural strife.
Cohn, who teaches Hispanic studies ...