Gulliver as Slave Trader: Racism Reviled by Jonathan SwiftMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 2006 M07 25 - 252 pages The pointed social commentaries of master satirist Jonathan Swift are heavy with irony, but Swift rarely left any doubt about his true meaning. In the case of Gulliver's Travels, however, Swift's meaning has been the subject of debate among scholars for almost 300 years. Here, Elaine Robinson offers a new and fascinating interpretation for this literary classic. Pointing out clues throughout Gulliver, Robinson demonstrates Swift's uses of Everyman, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bonaventure, Boccaccio, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton to define real Christianity as a basis for protesting the African slave trade and racism. In doing so, she illuminates Swift's insight, honesty, piercing irony, and brilliant wit, and calls attention to the disturbing relevance of Gulliver's Travels in the 21st century. |
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... lands in Lilliput after being wrecked " North - west of Van Diemen's Land ” during a “ Voyage to the South - Sea . " His ship's destination suggests affiliation with the South Sea Company and ( from Swift's time perspective if not from ...
... Van Diemen's Land , " Swift is protesting the Dutch involvement in the African slave trade . Gulliver also says they find themselves in the " latitude of 30 degrees 2 minutes south , " which is South Africa , where , " on the fifth of ...
... Van Diemen's Land , 30 degrees south , and has him picked up by an English African slave ship returning from Japan by the North and South Seas , about which he says : " I shall not trouble the reader with a particular account of this ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 1 |
The African Slave Trade 2525 | 67 |
Flagitious and Facinorous Acts | 92 |
Copyright | |
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