{"product_id":"tropicopolitans-9780822322832","title":"Tropicopolitans","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents an analysis of texts that accompanied European commercial and imperial expansion from the Glorious Revolution through the French Revolution. This book considers such texts as Behn's \"Oroonoko\", Defoe's \"Robinson Crusoe\" and \"Captain Singleton\", and Swift's \"Gulliver's Travels\". It is suitable for scholars engaged in post colonial studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTropicopolitans\u003c\/i\u003e might initiate a school of “tropicalization” studies. In the emerging field of what we have learned to name Black Atlantic writing, Aravamudan has made substantial contributions in his chapters on Equiano and Toussaint Louverture, in which each figure is richly, contextually read. The wrenching from a Euro-Christian framework into a tropicalizing one opens up these figures to new critical investigations instead of merely freezing their heroic status for all time. Aravamudan’s book should go some way toward helping us maintain our vigil against premature orthodoxies.”—\u003cb\u003eDonna Landry\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Muses of Resistance: Laboring Class Women’s Poetry in Britain, 1739–1796\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eTropicopolitans\u003c\/i\u003e is the most theoretically sophisticated study yet of colonialist texts in the eighteenth century.”—\u003cb\u003eJames Thompson\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eModels of Value: Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e Virtualizations \u003cbr\u003e 1. Petting Oroonoko \u003cbr\u003e 2. Piratical Accounts \u003cbr\u003e 3. The Stoic's Voice \u003cbr\u003e Levantinizations \u003cbr\u003e 4. Lady Mary in the Hamman \u003cbr\u003e 5. The Despotic Eye and the Oriental Sublime \u003cbr\u003e Nationalizations \u003cbr\u003e 6. Equiano and the Politics of Literacy \u003cbr\u003e 7. Tropicalizing the Englightenment \u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406022484311,"sku":"9780822322832","price":112.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822322832.jpg?v=1730494274","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tropicopolitans-9780822322832","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}