Imperialist Geographies: The Transpacific and Circum-Caribbean Space in US Literature in the Period from 1880 to 1940 (C02)

该项目调查了19世纪末和20世纪初帝国主义向太平洋和加勒比地区扩张期间美国文学中对空间的想象。它探讨了话语文学的空间化过程，以及文学在空间想象和空间格式的出现、分布、表现和（去）稳定中所起的作用。它还关注文学作为意识形态批判的工具和作为替代空间想象的生产者的功能。

The project investigates the imagination of space in US literature in the period of imperialist expansion to the Pacific and the Caribbean in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It explores discursive literary spatialization processes and the role literature has played in the emergence, distribution, performance, and (de)stabilization of spatial imaginations and spatial formats. It also focuses on literature’s function as a tool of ideological critique and as a producer of alternative spatial imaginations.