Traveling South - 9780820327655
Un libro in lingua di Cox John David edito da Univ of Georgia Pr, 2005
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The writers of these intranational accounts struggled with the significance of travel through a region that was both America and ?other.” In writings by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur and William Bartram, for example, the narrators create personal identities and express their Americanness through travel that, Cox argues, becomes a defining aspect of the young nation. In the narratives of Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup, the complex relationship between travel and slavery highlights contemporary debates over the meaning of space and movement. Both Fanny Kemble and Harriet Jacobs explore the intimate linkings of women's travel and the construction of an ideal domestic space, whereas Frederick Law Olmsted seeks, through his travel writing, to reform the southern economy and expand a New England yeoman ideology throughout the nation. The Civil War diaries of Union soldiers, written during the years that witnessed the largest movement of travelers through the South, echo earlier themes while concluding that the South should not be transformed in order to become sufficiently ?American”; rather, it was and should remain a part of the American nation, regardless of perceived differences.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Traveling South
- Sottotitolo: Travel Narratives And the Construction of American Identity
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Cox John David
- Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
- Collana: Univ of Georgia Pr (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Ottobre '05
- Genere: LITERARY CRITICISM
- Argomenti : National characteristics, American History Sources Travelers' writings, American Travel in literature
- Pagine: 252
- Dimensioni mm: 228 x 158 x 25
- ISBN-10: 0820327654
- EAN-13: 9780820327655