Section C
C02
Research Area
American Studies / Literary Studies

Imperialist Geographies: The Transpacific and Circum-Caribbean Space in US Literature in the Period from 1880 to 1940

The project investigates the imagination of space in US literature in the period of imperialist expansion to the Pacific and the Caribbean in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It explores discursive literary spatialization processes and the role literature has played in the emergence, distribution, performance, and (de)stabilization of spatial imaginations and spatial formats. It also focuses on literature’s function as a tool of ideological critique and as a producer of alternative spatial imaginations.

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Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Gabriele
Pisarz-Ramirez

Universität Leipzig
Institut für Amerikanistik
GWZ, Room 3 5.08
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig
Tel: +49 – (0) 341 97 373 43

Phone: +49 341 97-37343
Researcher

Dr. Steffen Adrian
Wöll

Universität Leipzig
SFB 1199
Room 5.07
Strohsackpassage
Nikolaistraße 6–10, 5th Floor
04109 Leipzig
Tel: +49 – (0) 341 97 37 752

Phone: +49 341 97-37752

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