03965oam 2200793I 450 991045153480332120220131181313.01-134-31861-81-280-17112-X0-203-41264-810.4324/9780203412640(CKB)1000000000249925(EBL)200646(OCoLC)253000988(SSID)ssj0000154454(PQKBManifestationID)11162564(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154454(PQKBWorkID)10418667(PQKB)11484050(MiAaPQ)EBC200646(Au-PeEL)EBL200646(CaPaEBR)ebr10162450(CaONFJC)MIL17112(OCoLC)826515120(EXLCZ)99100000000024992520180331d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature /Gesa MackenthunLondon ;New York :Routledge,2004.1 online resource (252 p.)Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American LiteratureDescription based upon print version of record.0-415-75885-8 0-415-33302-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.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; IndexThis 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 authoRoutledge Transnational Perspectives on American LiteratureAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismBlack people in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literature1783-1850History and criticismAfrican AmericansIntellectual life19th centuryAfrican Americans in literatureSlave trade in literatureSlavery in literatureAtlantic Ocean RegionIn literatureElectronic books.American literatureHistory and criticism.Black people in literature.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.African AmericansIntellectual lifeAfrican Americans in literature.Slave trade in literature.Slavery in literature.810.9/3552/09034Mackenthun Gesa1959,240962MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451534803321Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature2144515UNINA