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Greeson, Jennifer Rae. "The Figure of the South and the Imagination of Nation in the United States," American Studies, Yale University, May 2001.
This dissertation proposes that a discursive figure of “the South” has been present in United States print culture throughout U.S. history; that this figure has served as a known quantity against which the nation at large has been gauged through opposition, juxtaposition, and frantic projection; and that this figure consistently has been posited as a timeless and backward counterpoint to change, and thus has been especially useful to Americans negotiating the passage of the nation into various phases of modernity. The project comprises three sections, each examining literary formations concerned with imaging the South that arose at key moments of modernization in U.S. national life. In sum, by tracking between 1776 - the endpoint of America-as-colony—and 1898—the ostensible beginning of U.S.—as empire-the dissertation demonstrates that the differentiated figure of the South consistently served as a point of triangulation in United States nationalist ideology. As such, the South both disrupted the metropole/periphery binary of European imperialism, and imaginatively intervened in relations between the U.S. and the rest of the globe.
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