Slaves in Algiers: Race, Republican Genealogies, and the Global Stage

Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock

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“…As Martha Elena Rojas points out, "[b]ecause of their popularity and their affective power, accounts of Barbary captivity were vital to the development of U.S. diplomatic practice and foreign policy" (2003, 159). 11 In recent years, Slaves in Algiers has been subject to much critical scrutiny, mostly owing to its complex depiction of the intersections between race, gender, and empire (see Dillon 2004, Gould 2003, or Schueller 1998. By conjoining questions of sexual freedom with questions of racial, religious, and national freedom, the play quite ingeniously negotiates various, and often conflicting, meanings of the idea of "liberty"-protofeminist, liberal capitalist, or early national.…”

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Maritime Mobility and the Work of Susanna Rowson: Transatlantic Perspectives

Lippert

2023

Maritime Literature and Culture

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The chapter explores how the work of Susanna Haswell Rowson (1762–1824) employs ships and sea travel as sites of the cultural articulation and negotiation of mobility in the early modern Atlantic world. Through her writings on seafaring, the chapter suggests, Rowson examines the tensions between imperial fantasies of seamless connectivity across the Atlantic world and the typically flawed material and infrastructural conditions that enabled/foreclosed that connectivity. Critically reading the play Slaves in Algiers (1794), the didactic treatise “Rise and Progress of Navigation” (1811), as well as the novels Reuben and Rachel (1798) and Rebecca (1814 edition), the chapter analyzes the ways in which Rowson functionalized maritime mobility in order to deliberate the materiality of transatlantic travel and the ways such travel impacted on the cultural imaginaries of correspondence, circulation, and exchange. Moreover, Rowson used ships and seafaring as narrative devices to relate early U.S. national identities (such as her own) to larger transatlantic contexts. Ultimately, the chapter shows that Rowson’s writing establishes the Atlantic world as a contested and contradictory cultural space that could not always reconcile imperial fantasies of connectivity with the imperfect material conditions of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century maritime mobility.

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Maritime Mobility and the Work of Susanna Rowson: Transatlantic Perspectives

Lippert

2023

Maritime Literature and Culture

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The American School of Empire

Larkin

2016

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Early American artists and political thinkers wrestled with the challenges of forming a cohesive, if not coherent, culture and political structure to organize the young republic and its diverse peoples. The American School of Empire shows how this American idea of empire emerged through a dialogue with British forms of empire, becoming foundational to how the US organized its government and providing early Americans with the framework for thinking about the relations between states and the disparate peoples and cultures that defined them. Edward Larkin places special emphasis on the forms of the novel and history painting, which were crucial vehicles for the articulation of the American vision of empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Republican Women Critics: Performing Christian Activism, American Culture, and Race

Cima¹

2006

Early American Women Critics

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Slaves in Algiers: Race, Republican Genealogies, and the Global Stage

Cited by 34 publications

References 49 publications

Maritime Mobility and the Work of Susanna Rowson: Transatlantic Perspectives

Maritime Mobility and the Work of Susanna Rowson: Transatlantic Perspectives

The American School of Empire

Republican Women Critics: Performing Christian Activism, American Culture, and Race

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