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Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces - The Early United States through Lens of Travel (Paperback)
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Divergent Visions, Contested Spaces - The Early United States through Lens of Travel (Paperback)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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This multicultural project examines fictional and non-fictional
accounts of travel in the Early Republic and antebellum periods.
Connecting literary representations of geographic spaces within and
outside of U.S. borders to evolving definitions of national
American identity, the book explores divergent visions of contested
spaces. Through an examination of depictions of the land and travel
in fiction and non-fiction, the study uncovers the spatial and
legal conceptions of national identity. The study argues that
imagined geographies in American literature dramatize a linguistic
contest among dominant and marginal voices. Blending
interpretations of canonical authors, such as James Fenimore
Cooper, Frederick Douglass, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., and Herman
Melville, with readings of less well -known writers like Gilbert
Imlay, Elizabeth House Trist, Sauk Chief Black Hawk, William
Grimes, and Moses Roper, the book interprets diverse authors'
impressions of significant spaces migrations. The movements and
regions covered include the Anglo-American migration to the
Trans-Appalachian Valley after the Revolutionary War; the 1803
Louisiana Purchase and Anglo-American travel west of the
Mississippi; the Underground Railroad as depicted in the fugitive
slave narrative and novel; and the extension of American interests
in maritime endeavors off the California coast and in the South
Pacific.
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