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Albert, Pamela Jane.

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Transatlantic retrospections: Postcolonial engagements with the British eighteenth century.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Transatlantic retrospections: Postcolonial engagements with the British eighteenth century./
Author:	Albert, Pamela Jane.
Description:	265 p.
Notes:	Director: Charlotte Sussman.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-09A.
Subject:	Literature, African. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188459
ISBN:	9780542311123

Transatlantic retrospections: Postcolonial engagements with the British eighteenth century.
Albert, Pamela Jane.

Transatlantic retrospections: Postcolonial engagements with the British eighteenth century. - 265 p.

Director: Charlotte Sussman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2005.

Transatlantic Retrospections revisits eighteenth-century culture through the lens of creative works by contemporary African and Caribbean writers who engage with the modes of storytelling that emerged in England during the heyday of the Atlantic Slave Trade. While these engagements take different forms, they reveal that writers from once-colonized regions of the globe, despite their political differences, detect similarities between their own aesthetic struggles to represent a "new" world, yet one that continues to be traumatized by political conflict and violence, and the aesthetic struggles of Britons who were similarly confronted with a New World.

ISBN: 9780542311123Subjects--Topical Terms:

1022872
Literature, African.

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520 $a While postcolonial theorists and literary critics have typically viewed revisions of classic works within a counter-discursive framework of "writing back" to the British empire, focusing specifically on how they contest historical narratives promoting ethnocentrism and colonial exploitation, transatlantic retrospections expose that postcolonial writers are also interested in the eighteenth century's generic developments. For example: by transforming The Spectator No. 11 into a first-person captivity narrative, Inkle and Yarico, Guyanese-born Beryl Gilroy highlights Richard Steele's subtle abolitionist sentiment while critiquing the English periodical essay as a vehicle for identity constructions; by transforming Daniel Defoe's imperialist novel, Robinson Crusoe, into a play, Pantomime, St Lucian Derek Walcott (re)presents the colonizer/colonized, master/slave relationship as one that goes beyond subjugation and alienation; by transforming Jonathan Swift's satirical travelogue, Gulliver's Travels, into a prison memoir in verse, "Gulliver," Nigerian Wole Soyinka (re)introduces the figure of Gulliver as a prisoner of conscience and lone seeker after social justice; by transforming William Hogarth's pictorial series, A Harlot's Progress, into a neo-slave narrative, also entitled A Harlot's Progress, and drawing on Ignatius Sancho's Letters, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative and Isaac Bickerstaff's The Padlock, Guyanese-born David Dabydeen demonstrates that no historical figure or cultural production represents a fixed socio-political position.
520 $a Transatlantic retrospections reflect twentieth-century encounters with neocolonial oppression and racism, and thus double as inquiries into how much the modern world has progressed since the eighteenth century. Moreover, they invite reinterpretations of eighteenth-century representations of colonialism and slavery. Subsequently, transatlantic retrospections exemplify the complex ways genres cut across historical periods and political and cultural systems.
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