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  • Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature

    by Gesa Mackenthun ...
    Series series Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature
    This book is a significant contribution to existing research on the themes of race and slavery in the founding literature of the United States. It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework.The author applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sea Changes

    Historicizing the Ocean

    Edited by Bernhard Klein, Gesa Mackenthun ...
    The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enforced migration but also of new forms of solidarity and affective kinship. Sea**Changes re-evaluates the view that history happens mainly on dry land and makes the case for a creative reinterpretation of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece

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  • The Fleet at Flood Tide

    America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
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  • The Mammoth Book of Pirates

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
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    by Daniel Defoe ...
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    "The Storm" (1704) is a founding document of modern journalism. It tells of the events of November 1703, when a hurricane struck Britain. It is composed of verbatim eyewitness accounts, solicited from survivors through a newspaper advertisement that Defoe placed shortly after the hurricane struck.This account remains a required reading for journalism students to this day. ... Read more

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