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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451534803321

Autore

Mackenthun Gesa <1959, >

Titolo

Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature / / Gesa Mackenthun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-31861-8

1-280-17112-X

0-203-41264-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature

Disciplina

810.9/3552/09034

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Black people in literature

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - 1783-1850 - History and criticism

African Americans - Intellectual life - 19th century

African Americans in literature

Slave trade in literature

Slavery in literature

Electronic books.

Atlantic Ocean Region In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Chartless narratives: ambivalent postcoloniality and oceanicmemory in early American writing; 2 The emergence of the 'postcolonial' Atlantic: Equiano's Interesting Narrative and Tyler's Algerine Captive; 3 Textual and geographical displacement in Arthur Mervyn and The Red Rover; 4 Ambivalent Atlantic: slave ship memories in antebellum writing; 5 Metaphorical Atlantic: antebellum fictions of the Pacific; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 of the United States and the Civil War, in order to uncover metaphors of the colonial and imperial 'unconscious' in America's foundational writing. The book analyses the writings of canonized autho