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

By Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110692228
• ISBN13: 9783110692228
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary