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Thus by a convenient tropological substitution, a transcendental ego is created that does not have to work at being a subject, because it is produced unconsciously and, as Schelling later says,

'The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815) 2008

There is, however, a complex ambivalence embedded in this tropological revenge.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

This tropological strategy was far from unusual in Evangelical self-fashionings, but Potkay demonstrates that unlike other Puritan spiritual autobiographies,

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

In this context, Equiano understands his struggle with the sailors on board the Morning Star as a tropological rehearsal of the war between the tribes of

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

Before analyzing Equiano's exhortations on the marketplace, it is important to recognize that Equiano completes the tropological relation to Judges 19-21 by entering into the slave trade.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

As I hope my unraveling of the Judges allusion indicates, Equiano's deployment of the Bible cannot be contained in any straightforward fashion, for even at the tropological level the text works against itself. close window

Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire' 2006

Potkay's decision to focus only on the tropological leaves the question of the anagogical unaddressed, but, as Potkay has recently argued in "History ...",

Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire' 2006

But behind and following this invocation of Godly vengeance lies a more troubling tropological reading based not on The Book of Martyrs but rather on the Book of Judges.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

Adam Potkay offers an illuminating account of the secularization of Equiano's text while defending his own tropological reading of the narrative in History,

Notes on 'The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire' 2006

Equiano's "progress" is not just the tropological freeing of the soul from the symbolic

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006