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
the United States and the Civil War, in order to uncover metaphors
of the colonial and imperial 'unconscious' in America's
foundational writing. The book analyses the writings of canonized
authors such as Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper,
Edgar Allan Poe, and Herman Melville alongside those of lesser
known writers like Olaudah Equiano, Royall Tyler, Frederick
Douglass, Martin Delany, and Maxwell Philip, and situates them
within the colonial, and 'postcolonial', context of the slave-based
economic system of the Black Atlantic.
While placing the transatlantic slave trade on the map of American
Studies and viewing it in conjunction with American imperial
ambitions in the Pacific, Fictions of the Black Atlantic in
American Foundational Literature also adds a historical dimension
to present discussions about the 'ambivalence' of postcoloniality.
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