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UNINA9910451534803321 |
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Autore |
Mackenthun Gesa <1959, > |
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Titolo |
Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature / / Gesa Mackenthun |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-31861-8 |
1-280-17112-X |
0-203-41264-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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