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Tropicalizing Philip Quaque: On African Atlantic Literatures

Tropicalizing Philip Quaque: On African Atlantic Literatures ABSTRACT: Whereas slave narratives are classics of eighteenth-century studies, there has been scant attention to African eighteenth-century writing written by parties implicated in the slave trade. That absence reduces the diversity of African statements about the slave trade and African participation in the pre-abolition Atlantic world. Using the letters of Philip Quaque, as a case study, I argue that attention to the sparse eighteenth-century West African literary culture complicates the repertoire of African representations of the slave-trading Atlantic world. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Eighteenth Century University of Pennsylvania Press

Tropicalizing Philip Quaque: On African Atlantic Literatures

The Eighteenth Century , Volume 58 (1) – Mar 13, 2017

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Abstract

ABSTRACT: Whereas slave narratives are classics of eighteenth-century studies, there has been scant attention to African eighteenth-century writing written by parties implicated in the slave trade. That absence reduces the diversity of African statements about the slave trade and African participation in the pre-abolition Atlantic world. Using the letters of Philip Quaque, as a case study, I argue that attention to the sparse eighteenth-century West African literary culture complicates the repertoire of African representations of the slave-trading Atlantic world.

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The Eighteenth CenturyUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

Published: Mar 13, 2017

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