The plantation in the postslavery imagination
Russ, Elizabeth Christine.
The plantation in the postslavery imagination [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Christine Russ. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 212 p.). - Imagining the Americas . - Imagining the Americas. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The author examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. She conceives the plantation to be not primarily a physical location, but rather an ideological and psychological trope through which intersecting histories of the New World are told and retold.
9780199869480 (ebook) : No price
Plantations in literature.
Spanish American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Caribbean fiction (Spanish)--History and criticism.--20th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
PQ7082.N7
863.609353
The plantation in the postslavery imagination [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Christine Russ. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xi, 212 p.). - Imagining the Americas . - Imagining the Americas. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The author examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. She conceives the plantation to be not primarily a physical location, but rather an ideological and psychological trope through which intersecting histories of the New World are told and retold.
9780199869480 (ebook) : No price
Plantations in literature.
Spanish American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Caribbean fiction (Spanish)--History and criticism.--20th century
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
PQ7082.N7
863.609353