01607nam a2200337 a 4500 EDZ0000075896 StDuBDS 20150804193947.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100211s2010 nyu fo 001 0 eng d 9780199869480 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PQ7082.N7 863.609353 22 Russ, Elizabeth Christine. The plantation in the postslavery imagination [electronic resource] / Elizabeth Christine Russ. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (xi, 212 p.). Imagining the Americas 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. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Print version 9780195377156 Imagining the Americas. Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195377156.001.0001 38515 38515