LEADER 03978nam 2200805 a 450 001 9910820381003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-134-31860-X 010 $a1-134-31861-8 010 $a1-280-17112-X 010 $a0-203-41264-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203412640 035 $a(CKB)1000000000249925 035 $a(EBL)200646 035 $a(OCoLC)253000988 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000154454 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11162564 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154454 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10418667 035 $a(PQKB)11484050 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200646 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL200646 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10162450 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL17112 035 $a(OCoLC)826515120 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000249925 100 $a20040102d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature /$fGesa Mackenthun 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (252 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-75885-8 311 $a0-415-33302-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 330 $aThis book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework. The author applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of the United States and the Civil War, in order to uncover metaphors of the colonial and imperial 'unconscious' in America's foundational writing. The book analyses the writings of canonized autho 410 0$aRoutledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aBlack people in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y1783-1850$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans in literature 606 $aSlave trade in literature 606 $aSlavery in literature 607 $aAtlantic Ocean Region$xIn literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aBlack people in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 615 0$aAfrican Americans in literature. 615 0$aSlave trade in literature. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 676 $a810.9/3552/09034 700 $aMackenthun$b Gesa$f1959-$0240962 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820381003321 996 $aFictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature$94111097 997 $aUNINA