Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination

Name: Plantation in the Postslavery Imagination
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ISBN: 9780195377156

ISBN-10: 019537715X

ISBN-13: 9780195377156

Edition: 2009

Authors: Elizabeth Christine Russ

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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…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/5/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.65" wide x 6.54" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

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



Note on Translation


Introduction



Modern Plantation Imaginaries



Race and Romance in the Americas



Women, Nation, and the "Problematic of Space"



Postmodern Plantation Imaginaries



New World Silences, New World Songs



Redressing the Big House


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index