Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US
Part 3: Greeson explores the need to pursue and disavow US empire and how the “Plantation South” functions as a repository
Part 4: Greeson explores how a narrative from the era “can prevent the collapse of the national self into its ‘southern other’”
Part 5: Greeson discusses the focus of national writers on the internal “Plantation South”
About
Jennifer Rae Greeson received her PhD in American Studies from Yale University and is an assistant professor in English and American Studies at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Our South (2010, Harvard University Press). She is also co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Charles Chesnutt’s Conjure Tales (2011).