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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
1999.
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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.