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000347267 1001_ $$aRuss, Elizabeth Christine.
000347267 24514 $$aThe plantation in the postslavery imagination /$$cElizabeth Christine Russ.
000347267 260__ $$aOxford ;$$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2009.
000347267 300__ $$ax, 212 p. ;$$c25 cm.
000347267 440_0 $$aImagining the Americas.
000347267 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000347267 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- 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.
000347267 5201_ $$a"In a provocative new approach toward understanding transnational literary cultures, this study examines the specter of the plantation, that physical place most vividly associated with slavery in the Americas. For Elizabeth Russ, the plantation is not merely a literal location, but also a vexing rhetorical, ideological, and psychological trope through which intersecting histories of the New World are told. Through a series of precise, in-depth readings, Russ analyzes the discourse of the plantation through a number of suggestive pairings: male and female perspectives; U.S. and Spanish American traditions; and continental alongside island societies." "To chart comparative elements in the development of the postslavery imagination in the Northern and Southern hemispheres, Russ distinguishes between a modern and a postmodern imaginary. The former privileges a familiar plot of modernity: the traumatic transition from a local, largely agrarian order to an increasingly anonymous industrialized society. The latter, abandoning nostalgia toward the past, suggests a new history using the strategies of performance, such as witnessing, reticency, and traversal. Authors examined include The Twelve Southerners, Fernando Ortiz, Teresa de la Parra, Eudora Welty, Antonio Benitez Rojo, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, and Mayra Santos-Febres, among others." "Applying sharp analyses across a broad range of texts, Russ reveals how the language used to imagine communities influenced by the plantation has been gendered, racialized, and eroticized in ways that oppose the domination of an ever-shifting "North" while often reproducing the fundamental power divide. Her work moves beyond the North-South dichotomy that has often stymied scholarly work in Latin American studies and, importantly, provides a model for future hemispheric approaches."--BOOK JACKET.
000347267 650_0 $$aPlantations in literature.
000347267 650_0 $$aSpanish American fiction$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism.
000347267 650_0 $$aCaribbean fiction (Spanish)$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism.
000347267 650_0 $$aAmerican literature$$y20th century$$xHistory and criticism.
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