Gesa Mackenthun is Professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her books include an analysis of early modern colonial discourse, Metaphors of Dispossession (1997), and a forthcoming collection of essays, co-edited with Bernhard Klein, on the history of oceans, Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean. Her main work is in the fields of American Studies, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory

• 1. Chartless Narratives: Ambivalent Postcoloniality and Oceanic Memory in Early American Writing2. The Emergence of the 'Postcolonial' Atlantic: Equiano's Narrative and Tyler's Algerine Captive3. Textual and Geographical Displacement in Arthur Mervyn and The Red Rover4. Ambivalent Atlantic: Slaveship Memories in Antebellum Writing5. Metaphorical Atlantic: Antebellum Fictions of the Pacific

Gesa Mackenthun is Professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her books include an analysis of early modern colonial discourse, Metaphors of Dispossession (1997), and a forthcoming collection of essays, co-edited with Bernhard Klein, on the history of oceans, Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean. Her main work is in the fields of American Studies, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory

• 1. Chartless Narratives: Ambivalent Postcoloniality and Oceanic Memory in Early American Writing2. The Emergence of the 'Postcolonial' Atlantic: Equiano's Narrative and Tyler's Algerine Captive3. Textual and Geographical Displacement in Arthur Mervyn and The Red Rover4. Ambivalent Atlantic: Slaveship Memories in Antebellum Writing5. Metaphorical Atlantic: Antebellum Fictions of the Pacific

Gesa Mackenthun is Professor of American Studies at Rostock University, Germany. Her books include an analysis of early modern colonial discourse, Metaphors of Dispossession (1997), and a forthcoming collection of essays, co-edited with Bernhard Klein, on the history of oceans, Sea Changes: Historicizing the Ocean. Her main work is in the fields of American Studies, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory

• 1. Chartless Narratives: Ambivalent Postcoloniality and Oceanic Memory in Early American Writing2. The Emergence of the 'Postcolonial' Atlantic: Equiano's Narrative and Tyler's Algerine Captive3. Textual and Geographical Displacement in Arthur Mervyn and The Red Rover4. Ambivalent Atlantic: Slaveship Memories in Antebellum Writing5. Metaphorical Atlantic: Antebellum Fictions of the Pacific