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Tropicopolitans: Colonialism And Agency, 16881804 (Postcontemporary Interventions),Used
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In Tropicopolitans Srinivas Aravamudan reconstructs the colonial imagination of the eighteenth century. By exploring representations of peoples and cultures subjected to colonial discourse, he makes a case for the agencyor the capacity to resist dominationof those oppressed. Aravamudans analysis of texts that accompanied European commercial and imperial expansion from the Glorious Revolution through the French Revolution reveals the development of anticolonial consciousness prior to the nineteenth century.Tropicalization is the central metaphor of this analysis, a term that incorporates both the construction of various dynamic tropes by which the colonized are viewed and the site of the study, primarily the tropics. Tropicopolitans, then, are those people who bear and resist the representations of colonialist discourse. In readings that expose new relationships between literary representation and colonialism in the eighteenth century, Aravamudan considers such texts as Behns Oroonoko, Defoes Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton, Addisons Cato, and Swifts Gullivers Travels and The Drapiers Letters. He extends his argument to include analyses of Johnsons Rasselas, Beckfords Vathek, Montagus travel letters, Equianos autobiography, Burkes political and aesthetic writings, and Abb de Raynals Histoire des deux Indes. Offering a radical approach to literary history, this study provides new mechanisms for understanding the development of anticolonial agency.Introducing eighteenthcentury studies to a postcolonial hermeneutics, Tropicopolitans will interest scholars engaged in postcolonial studies, eighteenthcentury literature, and literary theory.
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