Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century
revisits eighteenth-century cultural artifacts through the lens of
creative works produced by contemporary writers Beryl Gilroy
(Guyana), Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), and
David Dabydeen (Guyana). While early studies of post-colonization
literature focused on how revisions of historical works "write
back" to the British empire, this study argues that
trans-historical, cross-cultural dialogues also reveal the global
complexity of eighteenth-century cultural forms (i.e. the
periodical essay, travel narrative, pantomime, satirical engraving,
and slave narrative). By transforming the generic form of their
eighteenth-century sources, the African and Caribbean writers in
this study strategically call attention to the modes of
storytelling utilized by eighteenth-century writers Richard Steele,
Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, William Hogarth, Isaac Bickerstaff,
and Ignatius Sancho, and subsequently expose how the encounters,
exchanges, and acts of resistance taking place around the world
influenced aesthetic experimentation in England. Transatlantic
Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century is thus a
reconsideration of eighteenth-century literature, art, and drama.
However, because these engagements with British literature, art,
and drama concurrently reflect twentieth-century encounters with
neocolonial oppression, political violence, and racism, this study
also proposes that engagements with the British eighteenth century
double as inquiries into whether the modern world has progressed
since the eighteenth century.
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