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Author:

Mackenthun, Gesa, 1959-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

x, 214 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Blacks in literature.
American literature--History and criticism--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.
Atlantic Ocean Region--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.

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.

Series:

Routledge transatlantic perspectives on American literature ; 4

ISBN:

9780415333023 (alk. paper)
0415333024 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)54046951

LCCN:

2004040951

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)