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

by Elahe Haschemi Yekani

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303058643X
• ISBN13: 9783030586430
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"