"John Sayles's film Lone Star provides insights relevant to the task of remapping "The South" within a broader hemispheric context. In his homage to the genealogical obsessions of such writers as Faulkner and García Márquez, Sayles explores the challenge posed by the determinism of a paternalistic past. The film stresses the paradoxical meaning of incest as reconciliation: history must be revisited precisely so that it can be rendered irrelevant to the task of re-imagining racial and regional identities in a plural America."