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2. Hot bodies and barbaric tropics': the U.S. South and new world natures

Author

Smith, Jon

Subjects
Southern United States -- Analysis -- History -- Social aspects, American literature -- Analysis -- Social aspects, American studies -- Analysis -- Social aspects, Literature/writing, Regional focus/area studies, Social aspects, Analysis, History
Abstract

As American Studies, founded at Harvard and not coincidentally grounded in New England paradigms, melds into a New World Studies boasting multiple points of origin but grounded increasingly in models [...]

Published
2003

3. History as Rhetoric: Style, Narrative, and Persuasion

Author

Smith, Jon

Subjects
History as Rhetoric (Book), Books -- Book reviews, History, Literature/writing
Abstract

At bottom, this book is about how a few historians, using their command of English, achieved power -- real power, the kind that changes the course of battles, eggs on [...]

Published
1996

6. The American South in a Global World

Author

Smith, Jon

Subjects
The American South in a Global World (Book) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, History, Regional focus/area studies
Published
2006

7. Postcolonial, Black, and Nobody's Margin: the US South and new world studies

Author

Smith, Jon

Subjects
Literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., History, Literature/writing
Abstract

Various studies and works related to the New World highlights the history of colonial plantations, race slavery, race mixing, poverty, insular communities and survival of the African culture. The studies of the US South are influenced by the concept of nativism that presents a unified, essential colonized native self.

Published
2004

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