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- ISBN 9783110692228
- Weight: 553g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2021
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar, University of Leipzig, Germany.
