C. Plasa

Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism

Race and Identification

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores questions of race and identification in writings from the Enlightenment to the present. Drawing on post-colonial theory, it provides close readings of texts by Olaudah Equiano, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Frantz Fanon, Toni Morrison and Tsitsi Dangarembga and highlights the elements of dialogue, exchange and contestation between them. It illustrates how inscriptions of racial crossing - whether between white and black or black and white - are always implicated in a certain textual and/or intertextual politics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-68769-7
• 2000
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 15mm
• ISBN-13: 9780333687697
• ISBN-10: 0333687698
• Artikelnr.: 44372842

Autorenporträt

Carl Plasa is Lecturer in English at the Centre for Critical Cultural Theory, University of Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Introduction 'Almost an Englishman': Colonial Mimicry in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself 'What Was Done There Is Not To Be Told': Mansfield Park's Colonial Unconscious 'Silent Revolt': Slavery and the Politics of Metaphor in Jane Eyre 'Qui est lá': Race and the Politics of Fantasy in Wide Sargasso Sea 'I is an Other': Feminizing Fanon in The Bluest Eye 'The Geography of Hunger': Intertextual Bodies in Nervous Conditions Notes Select Bibliography Index