"Strange"Land:The South in Constance Fenimore Woolson's Literary Works
Constance Fenimore Woolson has long been devalued as a local colorist.Put in the context of postbellum regional politics,Woolson's literary creation would triumph contemporary harsh criticism usually rendered by unfriendly and jealous male critics,and reveal its true color as part of American nationalist discourse instead of the local color movement.Via travel writing,Woolson participates actively in the cultural political project of reconstructing the South as a primitive corner that awaits to be integrated into the industrial and thus modern United States,and,accordingly,presents the southern people as"strangers in a strange land."In this sense,Woolson's literary imagination lean more toward nationalism than regionalism.
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