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The Influence of Atlantic Studies on American Literary Scholarship
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This article traces the important paradigm shift from Atlantic history to Atlantic studies. It then identifies the creative tensions generated by a three-dimensional conception of cis-Atlantic, trans-Atlantic, and circum-Atlantic perspectivism. With this new hermeneutic climate in mind, it turns to a discussion of recent U.S. literary scholarship, above all in terms of a select number of exemplars that self-consciously acknowledge and depart from the pathbreaking work of Paul Gilroy, Joseph Roach, and a number of historians of slavery and the African diaspora, such as Marcus Rediker, Peter Linebaugh, David Brion Davis, and Orlando Patterson.
Title: The Influence of Atlantic Studies on American Literary Scholarship
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This article traces the important paradigm shift from Atlantic history to Atlantic studies.
It then identifies the creative tensions generated by a three-dimensional conception of cis-Atlantic, trans-Atlantic, and circum-Atlantic perspectivism.
With this new hermeneutic climate in mind, it turns to a discussion of recent U.
S.
literary scholarship, above all in terms of a select number of exemplars that self-consciously acknowledge and depart from the pathbreaking work of Paul Gilroy, Joseph Roach, and a number of historians of slavery and the African diaspora, such as Marcus Rediker, Peter Linebaugh, David Brion Davis, and Orlando Patterson.
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