1st Edition
Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature
By Gesa Mackenthun
Copyright 2004
232 Pages
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Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
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Routledge
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This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework. The author applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence... Read more
1. Chartless Narratives: Ambivalent Postcoloniality and Oceanic Memory in Early American Writing
2. The Emergence of the 'Postcolonial' Atlantic: Equiano's Narrative and Tyler's Algerine Captive
3. Textual and Geographical Displacement in Arthur Mervyn and The Red Rover
4. Ambivalent Atlantic: Slaveship Memories in Antebellum Writing
5. Metaphorical Atlantic: Antebellum Fictions of the Pacific
2. The Emergence of the 'Postcolonial' Atlantic: Equiano's Narrative and Tyler's Algerine Captive
3. Textual and Geographical Displacement in Arthur Mervyn and The Red Rover
4. Ambivalent Atlantic: Slaveship Memories in Antebellum Writing
5. Metaphorical Atlantic: Antebellum Fictions of the Pacific
Biography
Gesa Mackenthun is Professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her books include an analysis of early modern colonial discourse, Metaphors of Dispossession (1997), and a forthcoming collection of essays, co-edited with Bernhard Klein, on the history of oceans, Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean. Her main work is in the fields of American Studies, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory
