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"Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism explores questions of race and identification from slavery to the so-called postcolonial present through close readings of texts by Olaudah Equiano, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Frantz Fanon, Toni Morrison and Tsitsi Dangarembga.
Carl Plasa draws attention to the larger networks of dialogue and contestation in which those texts are located: Equiano writes back to an Enlightenment ideology of race as Dangarembga reworks the figurings of the white female body in Charlotte Bronte. Bronte is situated, in turn, between Austen and Rhys, in a narrative of colonial and postcolonial textual responses. Similarly, Morrison, and Dangarembga again, engage, implicity and explicitly, with the work of Fanon, while at the same time complicating his male-centred critique from African American and African feminist perspectives.
In the course of the analysis, the crossings of identification - whether between black self and white Other or white self and black Other - emerge both as sites of political tension and spaces in which psychic and historical realities powerfully collide."--BOOK JACKET.
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19th century, 20th century, Decolonization in literature, English fiction, Group identity in literature, History, History and criticism, Politics and literature, Postcolonialism, Postcolonialism in literature, Race in literature, Slavery in literature, Women and literature, Women authors, English fiction, history and criticism, Identity (psychology) in literature, English fiction, women authors, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th centuryPeople
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Textual politics from slavery to postcolonialism: race and identification
2000, Macmillan, St. Martin's Press
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Textual politics from slavery to postcolonialism: race and identification
1999, St. Martin's Press
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