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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Aravamudan, Srinivas (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, 1999.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.