American Tropics: Towards a Literary Geography

大多数文学史是由语言或民族国家所支配的。这两种方法都不能公正地对待美洲文学史的复杂性，特别是那些不止一个欧洲大国（因此也是语言）产生影响的地区。这个项目以一种完全不同的方式接近文学史，专注于地方。它将美洲热带地区定义为种植园文化繁荣的广阔地区（从查尔斯顿到巴伊亚）。在该地区内，它集中在六个地方，充分考虑与这些地方相关的写作-无论作家的语言或民族血统如何。

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.