caa a22 4500 378937499 CHVBK 20180305123644.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e200410 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/zaa.2004.52.4.331 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/zaa.2004.52.4.331 Mackenthun Gesa The Literary Presence of Atlantic Colonialism as Notation and Counterpoint [Elektronische Daten] [Gesa Mackenthun] In Culture and Imperialism (1993), Edward Said demonstrates how many of the classical literary texts of Europe wrestle with the historical realities of colonialism and imperialism. The two analytical tropes he uses for discussing this ‘ornate absence' (Morrison) of empire in the European novels of the nineteenth and twentieth century - the concepts of "geographical notation” and "counterpoint” - are both taken from the analysis of music. This essay seeks to adapt Said's analytical figures to the analysis of nineteenth century American literature's disarticulation of the nation's residual involvement in the slave-based Atlantic economy and the links between America's colonial (Atlantic) and imperial (continental, Pacific) activities. It argues that the geographical and meteorological notations of American texts differ from those of British novels because of the general foregrounding of spatial aspects in the early literature of the United States. Due to the vast and inherently diverse nature of American territorial engagement in the years before the Civil War (both at land and sea), American literature's historical and geographical notations can at times be seen to include strategies of topographical displacement which endow it with an almost ‘contrapuntal' quality. © 2014 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/4(2004-10), 331-349 52:4<331 2004 52 zaa https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.4.331 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2004.52.4.331 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mackenthun Gesa NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik De Gruyter 52/4(2004-10), 331-349 52:4<331 2004 52 zaa CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter