The plantation in the postslavery imagination [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Christine Russ. Russ, Elizabeth Christine. Plantations in literature. Spanish American fiction 20th century History and criticism. Caribbean fiction (Spanish) 20th century History and criticism. American literature 20th century History and criticism. PQ7082.N7 863.609353 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. The author examines the persistent presence of the plantation in trans-American literatures of the last century. She conceives the plantation to be not primarily a physical location, but rather an ideological and psychological trope through which intersecting histories of the New World are told and retold. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2010. 2010 Text 1 online resource (xi, 212 p.). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377156.001.0001 eng Imagining the Americas Imagining the Americas.