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

“Christopher Lloyd’s Corporeal Legacies in the US South: Memory and Embodiment in Contemporary Culture is original, timely, and furthers the fields of Southern Studies and contemporary literature by examining the intersections of critical race theory, Embodiment Studies, posthumanism, and Animal Studies in Southern literature and film.” (Deborah E. Barker, Professor and Undergraduate Director, University of Mississippi, USA) “The bringing together of psychoanalysis, posthumanism, Animal Studies, and Environmental Studies yields a project that is both original and current. Corporeal Legacies in the US South offers a fascinating, rigorous, and important contribution to Southern Studies.” (Matthew Dischinger, Lecturer, Georgia State University, USA) “This monograph makes important contributions into the field of Southern Studies in its approach to contemporary texts. Most important are the ways in which Christopher Lloyd addresses African American Studies criticism of discourses of the human, in the ways that post-humanism and animal studies, for instance, displace race.” (Monica Carol Miller, author of Being Ugly: Southern Women Writers and Social Rebellion, USA)

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