Imagining Southern Spaces: Hemispheric and Transatlantic Souths in Antebellum US Writings

Imagining Southern Spaces: Hemispheric and Transatlantic Souths in Antebellum US Writings
ISBN-10
3110692473
ISBN-13
9783110692471
Category
History
Pages
299
Language
English
Published
2021-02-22
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Author
Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar

Description

Identifying the antebellum era in the United States as a transitional setting, Imagining Southern Spaces ́investigates spatialization processes about the South during a time when intensifying debates over the abolition of slavery led to a heightened period of (re)spatialization in the region. Taking the question of abolition as a major factor that shaped how different actors responded to these processes, this book studies spatial imaginations in a selection of abolitionist and proslavery literature of the era. Through this diversity of imaginations, the book points to a multitude of Souths in various economic, political, and cultural entanglements in the American Hemisphere and the Circumatlantic. Thus, it challenges monolithic and provincial representations of the South as a provincial region distinct from the rest of the country.

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