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11 janvier 2008

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9780822388739

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying a recurring freedom plot organized around an Atlantic Ocean crossing, Doyle shows how this plot structures the texts of both African-Atlantic and Anglo-Atlantic writers and how it takes shape by way of submerged intertextual exchanges between the two traditions. For Anglo-Atlantic writers, Doyle locates the origins of this narrative in the seventeenth century. She argues that members of Parliament, religious refugees, and new Atlantic merchants together generated a racial rhetoric by which the English fashioned themselves as a "native," "freedom-loving," "Anglo-Saxon" people struggling against a tyrannical foreign king. Stories of a near ruinous yet triumphant Atlantic passage to freedom came to provide the narrative expression of this heroic Anglo-Saxon identity-in novels, memoirs, pamphlets, and national histories. At the same time, as Doyle traces through figures such as Friday in Robinson Crusoe, and through gothic and seduction narratives of ruin and captivity, these texts covertly register, distort, or appropriate the black Atlantic experience. African-Atlantic authors seize back the freedom plot, placing their agency at the origin of both their own and whites' survival on the Atlantic. They also shrewdly expose the ways that their narratives have been "framed" by the Anglo-Atlantic tradition, even though their labor has provided the enabling condition for that tradition.Doyle brings together authors often separated by nation, race, and period, including Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Olaudah Equiano, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, George Eliot, and Nella Larsen. In so doing, she reassesses the strategies of early women novelists, reinterprets the significance of rape and incest in the novel, and measures the power of race in the modern English-language imagination.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

11 janvier 2008

EAN13

9780822388739

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

3 Mo

Freedom’s Empire

Freedom’s

Empire

Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, ฀–

Laura Doyle

d u k e u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s : d u r h a m a n d l o n d o n 2 0 0 8

à ô Çôéŝŝ Çààô--ûçàô àà àéà ô é àŝ é àé ô ŝ ôô.

For my mother and for Nick, without whom nothing

These waters were unfathomably deep. Into them had spilled so many lives . . . —Virginia Woolf,To the Lighthouse

Mention “lap of wave” and the sea becomes a monument of bones walking backward and we, the skin of the waves. — Danielle Legros Georges, “Maroon”

Contents

Āçôééŝ 

ôûçô 1

i àçé à é  é Āàç Éçôô

1 Āàç ôzô, éô û: Śéééé-Çéû àçà éôûô 27 2 é’ŝ ŝôôà: Jàéŝ àô ô éç Ôŝ àé 57 3 é ôéçŝ ô é à é àçà Śûé 79

ii ôû çôŝ ô é

4 Éé Āàç ŝô: Ôôôôô, ôà, à é 97 5 àé àŝ É ô é: àôô à çàŝô 118 6 àŝààç Śéûçôŝ: éôé, ôŝô, ô, à ŝô 145 7 é-àŝŝàé ôŝ: éôé, Éqûàô, éé 183

iii Āàç ôç

8 Ā é’ŝ ŝ: àôé à éŝ 215 9 Śàô ŝŝôçàô  ôçé ô 231 10 ŝôŝŝéŝŝô  Jàçôŝ à ôŝ 255

IV é àŝ àçé Éç

11 ééô  éôà  Śéç 277 12 “Ā” ô Āàç  àôé’ŝé Śçàé éé301 13 ééô’ŝ Éàŝà û  Éô’ŝDàé Déôà331 14 çŝé Éç  ôŝ’ŝÇôég ôçéŝ369

V é’ŝ û  Āàç ôéŝ

15 Qûéé ééô’ŝ é  éà àŝé 393 16 ôô ’ŝ Qûéé Āàç Ôéûé 413

Çôçûŝô 445

ôéŝ 455 ôà 507 é 555

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