The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-537715-6
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Imagining The Americas

The Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. Russ 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. The permutations of this imagined site (as something related to but separate from the real plantation) illuminate a number of
fundamental issues of concern in Latin American and transnational American studies. The book's comparative analyses engage in debates over gender, race, and nation by emphasizing a series of differences: between modern and postmodern imaginaries, the United States and Spanish America, and continental and island
plantation societies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Russ

Russ, Elizabeth Christine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Christine Russ is Assistant Professor of Spanish Language and Latin American Literature at Southern Methodist University.