Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism: Race and Identification

Plasa, C.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-04-19

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333687697

DOI: 10.1057/9780230286719

Dimensions: 216cm x138cm

Pages: 172