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050 00 $aPS261$b.G74 2010
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100 1 $aGreeson, Jennifer Rae.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2010029039
245 10 $aOur South :$bgeographic fantasy and the rise of national literature /$cJennifer Rae Greeson.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2010.
300 $ax, 356 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gPART ONE.$tNationalization / The Plantation South -- $g1.$tThe Problem of the Plantation -- $g2.$tPutting the Colonial Past in Its Place -- $g3.$tDomestic Possession and the Imperial Impulse -- $g4.$tThe Enemy Within -- $gPART TWO.$tIndustrialization and Expansion / The Slave South -- $g5.$tUnderwriting Free Labor and Free Soil -- $g6.$tAmerican Universal Geography -- $g7.$tDark Satanic Fields -- $g8.$tThe Masterwork of National Literature -- $gPART THREE.$tThe Question of Empire / The Reconstruction South -- $g9.$tAbandoned Lands and Exceptional Empire -- $g10.$tThe Glory of Disaster -- $g11.$tInternal Islands and the American Scene, 1898-1905.
520 1 $a"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 heterogencous 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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004351
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101055
651 0 $aSouthern States$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111638
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007417
650 0 $aNationalism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090160
650 0 $aNationalism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory.
852 0 $bglx$hPS261$i.G74 2010