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  1. American Creoles
    the Francophone Caribbean and the American South
    Published: ©2012

    The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Regensburg
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    The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout and the social relations it created, was largely the same in the Caribbean and the American South. Essays written by leading authorities in the field examine the cultural, social, and historical affinities between the Francophone Caribbean and the American South, including Louisiana, which among the Southern states has had a quite particular attachment to France and the Francophone world. The essays focus on issues of history, language, politics and culture in various forms, notably literature, music and theatre

     
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  2. American Mediterraneans
    a study in geography, history, and race
    Author: Gillmann, Susan
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; London

    "In this book, Susan Gillman uncovers the ways that geographers and historians, novelists and travel writers, used "American Mediterranean" as a formula from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. She asks what cultural work is done by this kind... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "In this book, Susan Gillman uncovers the ways that geographers and historians, novelists and travel writers, used "American Mediterranean" as a formula from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s. She asks what cultural work is done by this kind of unsystematic, hypothetical, even open-ended comparative thinking. Although "American Mediterranean" is not a household term in the United States today, it once circulated widely in French, Spanish, and English. Gillman tracks two centuries of this geohistorical concept across different networks of writers: from nineteenth-century geographers to writers of the 1890s who reflected on the Pacific world of Southern California, and to literary writers and thinkers of the 1930s and 40s who drew on this comparative tradition to speculate on the political past and future of the Caribbean. As Gillman shows, all these figures grappled with the American legacies of European imperialism and slavery. Following the term through its travels across disciplines and borders, Gillman reveals a little-known racialized history, both long-lasting and fleeting, one that paradoxically appealed to a range of race-neutral ideas and ideals. American Mediterraneans adds and explicates a new element in the stock of race discourses in the Americas"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780226819662; 9780226819648
    Subjects: Pazifischer Raum <Motiv>; Französisch; Karibik <Motiv>; Literatur; Englisch; USA <Motiv>; Spanisch
    Other subjects: Caribbean Americans; American literature / 19th century / Themes, motives; American literature / 20th century / Themes, motives; United States / Civilization / Caribbean influences; Caribbean Area / Relations / United States; United States / Relations / Caribbean Area; Caribbean Area / Race relations; Caribbean Area / Historiography; Caribbean Area / In literature; Américains d'origine antillaise; Littérature américaine / 19e siècle / Thèmes, motifs; Littérature américaine / 20e siècle / Thèmes, motifs; Caraïbes (Région) / Relations / États-Unis; Caraïbes (Région) / Relations raciales; Caraïbes (Région) / Historiographie; Caraïbes (Région) / Dans la littérature; American literature / Themes, motives; Caribbean Americans; Civilization / Caribbean influences; Historiography; International relations; Literature; Race relations; Caribbean Area; United States; 1800-1999
    Scope: xvi, 183 Seitten, 22 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln, Illustrationen, Karten
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    Preface: The strange career of the American Mediterraneans -- Introduction: Beginning with Humboldt -- American Mediterraneans: a space-timeline -- Nineteenth-Century geographers and their Mediterraneans -- 1890s California-Pacific Mediterraneans -- 1940s Gulf-Caribbean Mediterraneans -- Epilogue: Ending with Braudel