The plantation in the postslavery imagination [electronic resource] /
by Russ, Elizabeth Christine.
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BookSeries: Imagining the Americas: Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (xi, 212 p.).ISBN: 9780199869480 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Plantations in literature | Spanish American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Caribbean fiction (Spanish) -- 20th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticismOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: The author examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. She 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.
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The author examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. She 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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