Imagining Southern spaces : hemispheric and transatlantic Souths in antebellum US writings /
Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2021]
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| Series: | Dialectics of the global ;
volume 14 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 290 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783110692471 3110692473 3110692600 9783110692600 |