TY - BOOK AU - Russ,Elizabeth Christine TI - The plantation in the postslavery imagination T2 - Imagining the Americas SN - 9780199869480 (ebook) : AV - PQ7082.N7 U1 - 863.609353 22 PY - 2010/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Plantations in literature KW - Spanish American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Caribbean fiction (Spanish) KW - American literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377156.001.0001 ER -