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American Mediterraneans
Susan Gillman
其他書名
A Study in Geography, History, and Race
出版
University of Chicago Press
, 2022-05-20
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / American / Regional
Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature
Literary Criticism / American / General
ISBN
0226819663
9780226819662
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=OkR3EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
The story of the “American Mediterranean,” both an idea and a shorthand popularized by geographers, historians, novelists, and travel writers from the early nineteenth century to the 1970s.
The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, visiting the Gulf-Caribbean in the early nineteenth century, called it America’s Mediterranean. Almost a century later, Southern California was hailed as “Our Mediterranean, Our Italy!” Although “American Mediterranean” is not a household phrase in the United States today, it once circulated widely in French, Spanish, and English as a term of art and folk idiom. In this book, Susan Gillman asks what cultural work is done by this kind of unsystematic, open-ended comparative thinking.
American Mediterraneans
tracks two centuries of this geohistorical concept, from Humboldt in the early 1800s, to writers of the 1890s reflecting on the Pacific world of the California coast, to writers of the 1930s and 40s speculating on the political past and future of the Caribbean. Following the term through its travels across disciplines and borders,
American Mediterraneans
reveals a little-known racialized history, one that paradoxically appealed to a range of race-neutral ideas and ideals.