Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism

Exploring questions of race and identification in writings from the Enlightenment to the 1990s, this study draws on postcolonial theory, and provides close readings of texts by Olaudah Equiano, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Jean Rhys, Frantz Fanon, Toni Morrison and Tsitsi Dangarembga and highlights the elements of dialogue, exchange and contestation between them. It illustrates how inscriptions of racial crossing whether between white and black or black and white are always implicated in a certain textual and/or intertextual politics.