Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature

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

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mackenthun, Gesa, 1959-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:	Routledge transatlantic perspectives on American literature ; 4.
Subjects:	1783-1899 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. LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General. African Americans in literature African Americans > Intellectual life American literature American literature > African American authors Black people in literature Literature Slave trade in literature Slavery in literature Atlantic Ocean Region > In literature. Atlantic Ocean Region Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of 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.