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.
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.
Gesa Mackenthun is Professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her books include an analysis of early modern colonial discourse, Metaphors of Dispossession (1997), and a forthcoming collection of essays, co-edited with Bernhard Klein, on the history of oceans, Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean. Her main work is in the fields of American Studies, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory
Inhaltsangabe
1. Chartless Narratives: Ambivalent Postcoloniality and Oceanic Memory in Early American Writing 2. The Emergence of the 'Postcolonial' Atlantic: Equiano's Narrative and Tyler's Algerine Captive 3. Textual and Geographical Displacement in Arthur Mervyn and The Red Rover 4. Ambivalent Atlantic: Slaveship Memories in Antebellum Writing 5. Metaphorical Atlantic: Antebellum Fictions of the Pacific
1. Chartless Narratives: Ambivalent Postcoloniality and Oceanic Memory in Early American Writing 2. The Emergence of the 'Postcolonial' Atlantic: Equiano's Narrative and Tyler's Algerine Captive 3. Textual and Geographical Displacement in Arthur Mervyn and The Red Rover 4. Ambivalent Atlantic: Slaveship Memories in Antebellum Writing 5. Metaphorical Atlantic: Antebellum Fictions of the Pacific
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