In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine
and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of
new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by
adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are
structured around critical terms pertinent both to the field and to
modern life in general.
The nonbinary, nontraditional approach of Keywords unmasks
and refutes standard binary thinking—First World/Third World,
self/other, for instance—that postcolonial studies revealed as a
flawed rhetorical structure for analyzing empire. Instead,
Keywords promotes a holistic way of thinking that begins
with southern studies but extends beyond.
