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

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London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description	1 online resource (x, 214 pages).
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Series	Routledge transatlantic perspectives on American literature ; 4
	Routledge transatlantic perspectives on American literature ; 4.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Black people in literature.
	Black people in literature.
	American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- African American authors.
	American literature -- 1783-1850 -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	1783-1850
Subject	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Slave trade in literature.
	Slave trade in literature.
	Slavery in literature.
	Slavery in literature.
	Atlantic Ocean Region -- In literature.
	Atlantic Ocean Region.
Chronological Term	1783-1899
Indexed Term	Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Mackenthun, Gesa, 1959- Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 (DLC) 2004040951
ISBN	0203412648 (electronic book)
	9780203412640 (electronic book)
	0415333024 (Cloth)

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