Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces
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American spatial identity
Annette Kolodny
Antebellum Periods
antebellum travel narratives
Author_Jeffrey Hotz
Black Hawk
Black Hawk War
Category=DSB
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Cherokee Nation
Contested spaces
Creole Revolt
Divergent visions
Early Republic literature
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Fox Peoples
frontier migration studies
Fugitive Slave
fugitive slave narratives
Green Corn
Heroic Slave
imagined geographies in US literature
Ishmael Bush
Legal conceptions
legal conceptions of nationhood
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Territory
Madison Washington
Marginal voices
Multi-racial Democracy
Multiracial Democracy
Nation Building
National American identity
Native American Tribes
Natty Bumppo
Slave Pen
Tom Grant
Underground Railroad
United States Navy
White America
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415977081
- Weight: 770g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 16 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods. Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and outside of U.S. borders to evolving definitions of national American identity, the book explores divergent visions of contested spaces. Through an examination of depictions of the land and travel in fiction and non-fiction, the study uncovers the spatial and legal conceptions of national identity. The study argues that imagined geographies in American literature dramatize a linguistic contest among dominant and marginal voices.
Blending interpretations of canonical authors, such as James Fenimore Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Herman Melville, with readings of less well -known writers like Gilbert Imlay, Elizabeth House Trist, Sauk Chief Black Hawk, William Grimes, and Moses Roper, the book interprets diverse authors' impressions of significant spaces migrations. The movements and regions covered include the Anglo-American migration to the Trans-Appalachian Valley after the Revolutionary War; the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and Anglo-American travel west of the Mississippi; the Underground Railroad as depicted in the fugitive slave narrative and novel; and the extension of American interests in maritime endeavors off the California coast and in the South Pacific.
Jeffrey Hotz is an Assistant Professor of English at Montgomery College and the Coordinator of the College-level English program at the Takoma Park campus. He has presented papers at numerous conferences, including the annual American Literature Association Conference, the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, and the American Conference on Romanticism.
