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“Within this abstracted Southern culture, swamps remain tangible, physical spaces rather than simply collections of tropes. As Simon Schama, Donna Haraway, and others have claimed in a variety of ways, landscape is always, at least in part, a creation of culture-but the range and limits of that cultural creation are what interest the ecocritic. For W. G. T. Mitchell, in his 2002 book Landscape and Power, landscape becomes less a descriptive term than an act of creation: "[L]andscape doesn't merely signify or symbolize power relations; it is an instrument of cultural power, perhaps even an agent of power that is (or frequently represents itself as) independent of human intentions" (z).”
― Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture
― Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture
“The Dismal Swamp," which appeared in Harpers New Monthly Magazine in 1856.”
― Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture
― Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture
“In his article "The Other Side of Slavery: Thomas Nelson Page's `No Haid Pawn,"' Louis Rubin has remarked at the story's radical departure from the others in Page's collection, pointing out that in the midst of Page's "tribute to the golden days before the Fall" there lurks, "seemingly unrelated to the life described in all the other stories[,] ... this terrible tale of horror, guilt, fear, and depravity" (99). Significantly, it is also the only story to mention the swamps that surround the plantation Eden.”
― Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture
― Shadow and Shelter: The Swamp in Southern Culture
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