Imagining Southern Spaces : : Hemispheric and Transatlantic Souths in Antebellum US Writings / / Deniz Bozkurt-Pekar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
• VerfasserIn: Bozkurt-Pekar, Deniz,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Dialectics of the Global , 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 290 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- On the Series -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Imagining a Region -- Chapter 2 Speaking of Space -- Chapter 3 The Slaveholding South in a Hemispheric Context -- Chapter 4 The South within Abolitionist Networks -- Conclusion: Bringing Spatial Imaginations Together -- Bibliography -- Index