Familial Feeling: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel 1st Edition

Familial Feeling: Entangled Tonalities in Early Black Atlantic Writing and the Rise of the British Novel 1st Edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030586409,9783030586416,3030586405,3030586413

Product details:

• ISBN 10:3030586413
• ISBN 13: 9783030586416
• Author: Elahe Haschemi Yekani

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Provincializing the Rise of the British Novel in the Transatlantic Public Sphere.

2. Foundations: Defoe and Equiano.

3. Digressions: Sancho and Sterne.

4. Resistances: Austen and Wedderburn.

5. Consolidations: Dickens and Seacole.

6. Conclusion: Queering the Remembrance of Slavery Today.

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