Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism

Download or read book Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism written by C. Plasa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-04-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.