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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保罗·瑟鲁（Paul Theroux）的《南方深处》中的区域主义目光

摘要本文的目的是概念化对美国南方实行的区域主义目光。本文通过对全景视线的评估和随后的迭代来进行，以了解如何构造同一性和主观性。通过仔细的文字分析可以了解，保罗·瑟鲁（Paul Theroux）的旅行回忆录《深南》（Deep South）进一步阐明了区域主义者的目光轮廓。Theroux亲自扮演了凝视者，但回忆录是读者的象征性旅行。本文进一步讨论了区域间动态以及人们如何在其中讨论种族，阶级和身份。