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1. Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature

   By Gesa Mackenthun

   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...

   Published May 12th 2004 by Routledge
2. 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...

   Published December 7th 2003 by Routledge