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Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism

Race and Identification

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  • © 2000

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  1. Carl Plasa
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Carl Plasa
    Pages 1-8

  3. ‘Almost an Englishman’: Colonial Mimicry in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself.

    • Carl Plasa
    Pages 9-31

  4. ‘What was done there is not to be told’: Mansfield Park’s Colonial Unconscious

    • Carl Plasa
    Pages 32-59

  5. ‘Silent Revolt’: Slavery and the Politics of Metaphor in Jane Eyre

    • Carl Plasa
    Pages 60-81

  6. ‘Qui est là?’: Race and the Politics of Fantasy in Wide Sargasso Sea

    • Carl Plasa
    Pages 82-97

  7. ‘I is an Other’: Feminizing Fanon in The Bluest Eye

    • Carl Plasa
    Pages 98-120

  8. ‘The Geography of Hunger’: Intertextual Bodies in Nervous Conditions

    • Carl Plasa
    Pages 121-145

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 146-172
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About this book

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.

About the author

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

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