{"product_id":"our-south-jennifer-rae-greeson-9780674024281","title":"Our South: Geographic Fantasy and the Rise of National Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince the birth of the nation, we have turned to stories about the American South to narrate the rapid ascendency of the United States on the world stage. The idea of a cohesive South, different from yet integral to the United States, arose with the very formation of the nation itself. Its semitropical climate, plantation production, and heterogeneous population once defined the New World from the perspective of Europe. By founding U.S. literature through opposition to the South, writers boldly asserted their nation to stand apart from the imperial world order. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur South\u003c\/i\u003e tracks the nation\/South juxtaposition in U.S. literature from the founding to the turn of the twentieth century, through genres including travel writing, gothic and romance novels, geography textbooks, transcendentalist prose, and abolitionist address. Even as the southern states became peripheral to U.S. politics and economy, \u003cb\u003eJennifer Rae Greeson\u003c\/b\u003e demonstrates that in literature the South remained central to the expanding and evolving idea of the nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClaiming the South as our deviant and recalcitrant \"other,\" Americans have projected an anti-imperial imperative of domesticating and civilizing, administering and integrating underdeveloped regions both within our borders and beyond. \u003ci\u003eOur South\u003c\/i\u003e has been a primal site for thinking about geography and power in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Rae Greeson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674024281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674024281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.44h x 6.40w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2011 pg. 235","brand":"Jennifer Rae Greeson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054243836159,"sku":"9780674024281","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9e749279-be12-45a1-ac3b-907027938a1a.jpg?v=1685028843","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/our-south-jennifer-rae-greeson-9780674024281","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}