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 a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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Colección: | Post-contemporary interventions.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Colonialism and Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Virtualizations. 1. Petting Oroonoko. 2. Piratical Accounts. 3. The Stoic's Voice
- Levantinizations. 4. Lady Mary in the Hammam. 5. The Despotic Eye and the Oriental Sublime
- Nationalizations. 6. Equiano and the Politics of Literacy. 7. Tropicalizing the Enlightenment.