American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography

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Most literary history is governed by language or nation state. Neither approach can do justice to the complexity of the literary history of the Americas, especially to those areas where more than one European power (and therefore language) has had influence. This project approaches literary history in a completely different way, focused on place. It defines the American Tropics as a broad region (from Charleston to Bahia) where plantation cultures flourished. From within that region it focusses on six places, giving intensive consideration to the writing associated with those places - irrespective of the language or national origin of the writers.