Tropicopolitans : colonialism and agency, 1688-1804
In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes a case for the agency -- or the capacity to resist domination -- of those oppressed. Aravamudan's analysis of texts that accompanied European commercial and imperial expansion from the Glorious Revolution through the French Revolution reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780822322832, 9780822323150, 0822322838, 082232315X
39180904
Acknowledgments Introduction Virtualizations 1. Petting Oroonoko 2. Piratical Accounts 3. The Stoic's Voice Levantinizations 4. Lady Mary in the Hamman 5. The Despotic Eye and the Oriental Sublime Nationalizations 6. Equiano and the Politics of Literacy 7. Tropicalizing the Englightenment Conclusion Notes Index
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