Author: Jennifer Rae Greeson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674059352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Since the birth of the nation, we have turned to stories about the American South to narrate the rapid ascendency of the United States on the world stage. The idea of a cohesive South, different from yet integral to the United States, arose with the very formation of the nation itself. Its semitropical climate, plantation production, and heterogeneous population once defined the New World from the perspective of Europe. By founding U.S. literature through opposition to the South, writers boldly asserted their nation to stand apart from the imperial world order. Our South tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in U.S. literature from the founding to the turn of the twentieth century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address. Even as the southern states became peripheral to U.S. politics and economy, Jennifer Rae Greeson demonstrates that in literature the South remained central to the expanding and evolving idea of the nation. Claiming the South as our deviant and recalcitrant “other,” Americans have projected an anti-imperial imperative of domesticating and civilizing, administering and integrating underdeveloped regions both within our borders and beyond. Our South has been a primal site for thinking about geography and power in the United States.
Our South
Author: Jennifer Rae Greeson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674059352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Since the birth of the nation, we have turned to stories about the American South to narrate the rapid ascendency of the United States on the world stage. The idea of a cohesive South, different from yet integral to the United States, arose with the very formation of the nation itself. Its semitropical climate, plantation production, and heterogeneous population once defined the New World from the perspective of Europe. By founding U.S. literature through opposition to the South, writers boldly asserted their nation to stand apart from the imperial world order. Our South tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in U.S. literature from the founding to the turn of the twentieth century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address. Even as the southern states became peripheral to U.S. politics and economy, Jennifer Rae Greeson demonstrates that in literature the South remained central to the expanding and evolving idea of the nation. Claiming the South as our deviant and recalcitrant “other,” Americans have projected an anti-imperial imperative of domesticating and civilizing, administering and integrating underdeveloped regions both within our borders and beyond. Our South has been a primal site for thinking about geography and power in the United States.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674059352
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Since the birth of the nation, we have turned to stories about the American South to narrate the rapid ascendency of the United States on the world stage. The idea of a cohesive South, different from yet integral to the United States, arose with the very formation of the nation itself. Its semitropical climate, plantation production, and heterogeneous population once defined the New World from the perspective of Europe. By founding U.S. literature through opposition to the South, writers boldly asserted their nation to stand apart from the imperial world order. Our South tracks the nation/South juxtaposition in U.S. literature from the founding to the turn of the twentieth century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address. Even as the southern states became peripheral to U.S. politics and economy, Jennifer Rae Greeson demonstrates that in literature the South remained central to the expanding and evolving idea of the nation. Claiming the South as our deviant and recalcitrant “other,” Americans have projected an anti-imperial imperative of domesticating and civilizing, administering and integrating underdeveloped regions both within our borders and beyond. Our South has been a primal site for thinking about geography and power in the United States.
Our South American Cousins
Author: William Taylor
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385060729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385060729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1880.
Let's Quilt Our South Dakota County
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793372372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 0793372372
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
The Clay-worker
Author:
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Category : Brick trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1486
Book Description
"The log of the clay worker": v. 100, p. 188-193.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brick trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1486
Book Description
"The log of the clay worker": v. 100, p. 188-193.
The South African Medical Record
Author:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Let's Quilt Our South Carolina County
Author: Carole Marsh
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 079337233X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher: Carole Marsh Books
ISBN: 079337233X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Transactions of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies
Author:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The South African Journal of Natural History
Author:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Some vols. include list of members.
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Some vols. include list of members.
United Empire
Author:
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
The South American Journal and Brazil & River Plate Mail
Author: Charles Dunlop
Publisher:
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description