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ABSTRACT
The aim of this essay is to conceptualize the regionalist gaze enacted upon the American South. The essay proceeds through an evaluation of the panoptic gaze and subsequent iterations to understand how identity and subjectivities are constructed. As understood through close textual analysis, Paul Theroux’s travel memoir Deep South further elucidates the contours of the regionalist gaze. Theroux himself enacts the gaze but the memoir serves as a symbolic excursion for readers. This essay furthers the conversation of interregional dynamics and how one might negotiate race, class, and identity within such.
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