No region has more distinct images of place than the South. This Corner of Canaan: Curriculum
Studies of Place & the Reconstruction of the South makes a unique contribution to studies of
curriculum and place linking the particularities of Southern culture to social concerns of
curriculum theory. Written by a Southerner about the South this book extends curriculum of
place by moving beyond a monolithic pastoral South to one that exists within the paradox of
its own aberrations: nostalgia queer fundamentalist Christianity with its own anomalous
notions of grace and communion homeplaces of difference and an apocalyptic Biblical vision.
