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

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Mackenthun, Gesa, 1959-

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TextSeries: Routledge transatlantic perspectives on American literature ; 4.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203412648
9780203412640

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature.DDC classification:

810.9/3552/09034 22

LOC classification:

PS217.B55 M33 2004eb

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18.06
HT 1691
HT 1810
HR 1728

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Contents:

Chartless narratives : ambivalent postcoloniality and oceanic memory in early American writing -- The emergence of the 'postcolonial' Atlantic : Equiano's Interesting narrative and Tyler's Algerine captive -- Textual and geographical displacement in Arthur Mervyn and The red rover -- Ambivalent Atlantic : slave ship memories in antebellum writing -- Metaphorical Atlantic : antebellum fictions of the Pacific.

Summary: This book applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of the United States and the Civil War.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210) and index.

This book applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of the United States and the Civil War.

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