Imperialist Geographies: The Transpacific and Circum-Caribbean Space in US Literature in the Period from 1880 to 1940 (C02)

• Subject Area: European and American Literary and Cultural Studies ; General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies ; Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: since 2016
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 266371360

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.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1199: Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition
• Applicant Institution: Universität Leipzig
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Gabriele Pisarz-Ramirez