ENGL 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Slave Narrative, Travel Literature, Captivity Narrative
7 Apr 2015
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Why: clash between heroic romance and history = knowledge is breaking down; politically reading: o is a precursor to antislavery discourse = emergent political strategy. Women"s servitude is akin to the servitude/violence in the slave economy (downside = slavery as metaphor for white women"s lack of rights) The exchange between women: when narrator genders herself = the moments of colonial authority. Narrator seems to be gender neutral until moments when colonial rule comes into play. (rebellion: i am a white woman, i have to leave now) This reading forces question: suggests relationship between colonial discourse and modern gender. White womanhood is at the core of colonial discourse. Aristocratic femininity: publication of early prose ctions that start activating notions of a place for women"s public discourse. These are the sours of what we now call the novel. Households controlled by survey, management (which is mirrored.
