Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American foundational literature /
Mackenthun, Gesa,1959-
London : Routledge,
2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-210) and index.
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.
American literature
Blacks in literature.
American literature
American literature
African Americans
African Americans in literature.
Slave trade in literature.
Slavery in literature.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Negers.
Slavenhandel.
Slaven (arbeid)
Atlantische Oceaan.