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

• Autore: Mackenthun Gesa <1959->
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/3552/09034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Atlantic Ocean Region In literature
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature
• ISBN: 1-134-31860-X; 1-134-31861-8; 1-280-17112-X; 0-203-41264-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820381003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature