The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction : The Ohio State University Press : 9780814255681 : 081425568X : 31 Jan 2020 : The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction uncovers a rich archive of &;white trash&; fiction in the Caribbean and its surrounding regions. After the abolition of slavery, affluent white planters underwent a period of identity crisis where wealth no longer maintained their privileges, and yet they did not belong to the group of newly freed peoples. Ramón E. Soto-Crespo analyzes the literary legacy of those who came under the label of &;white trash.&; This book argues that during the mid-twentieth century, &;white trash&; started off as a trope in pulp fiction and subsequently became absorbed into what we now think of as canonical literature. In The White Trash Menace, Soto-Crespo pairs novels from William Faulkner and Jean Rhys with pulp authors such as Edgar Mittelholzer and Kyle Onstott in order to provide an alternate account of the literary development o