Writing and Postcolonialism in the Early RepublicWriting and Postcolonialism in the Early Republic is the first book-length analysis of early American literature through the lens of postcolonial theory. Although the United States represented a colonizing presence that displaced indigenous peoples and exported imperial culture, American colonists also found themselves exiled, often exploited and abused by the distant metropolitan center. In this innovative book, Edward Watts demonstrates how American post-Revolutionary literature exhibits characteristics of a post-colonial society. |
Contents
Royall Tylers The Algerine Captive | 73 |
FOUR | 95 |
George Watterstons The Lawyer | 122 |
EPILOGUE | 165 |
Notes | 181 |
Works Consulted | 203 |
Common terms and phrases
Algerine Captive American writing author-narrator author-narrator's Brackenridge BRACKENRIDGE'S MODERN CHIVALRY British culture Brown Brown's Arthur Mervyn challenge chapter character Charles Brockden Charles Brockden Brown claims COLONIAL DISCOURSE complex conventional corrupt critique decolonization democratic demonstrates didactic discussion early republic eighteenth-century elite empire essay European explore Farrago Federalist fiction of authorship fictional author Fisher Ames gender genres Gleaner historians historiography Homi K identity ideology imperial inherited Irving Irving's John Underhill Knickerbocker Knickerbocker's language lawyer literary Looby means MENTAL COMMONWEALTH metafiction models Modern Chivalry modes monovocal Morcell Morcell's Murray Murray's narrative narrator nation nature nial NOTES TO PAGES novel political polyphony post-Revolutionary postcolonial public sphere reader readership reading recognizes represents republic of letters republican REPUTATION OF LITERATURE reveals Revolution revolutionary rhetoric satire Second World social Stevens story suggests SYLLOGISTICALLY FATAL WORLD Teague textuality tion Tyler Updike Updike's Vigillius voice volume Washington Irving Watterston women WORTHY FEDERAL CITIZEN