Familial Feeling

Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-58640-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

This open access book discusses British literature as part of a network of global entangled modernities and shared aesthetic concerns, departing from the retrospective model of a postcolonial “writing back” to the centre. Accordingly, the narrative strategies in the texts of early Black Atlantic authors, like Equiano, Sancho, Wedderburn, and Seacole, and British canonical novelists, such as Defoe, Sterne, Austen, and Dickens, are framed as entangled tonalities. Via their engagement with discourses on slavery, abolition, and imperialism, these texts shaped an understanding of national belonging as a form of familial feeling. This study thus complicates the “rise of the novel” framework and British middle-class identity formation from a transnational perspective combining approaches in narrative studies with postcolonial and queer theory.    

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haschemi Yekani, Elahe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Provincializing the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere.- 2. Foundations: Defoe and Equiano.- 3. Digressions: Sancho and Sterne.- 3. Resistances: Austen and Wedderburn.- 4. Consolidations: Dickens and Seacole.- 5. Conclusion: Queering the Remembrance of Slavery Today.

Über Autor(innen)

Elahe Haschemi Yekani is Professor of English and American Literature and Culture with a Focus on Postcolonial Studies at the Department of English and American Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.