Going Underground : Race, Space, and the Subterranean in the Nineteenth-Century United States /

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First popularized by newspaper coverage of the Underground Railroad in the 1840s, the underground serves as a metaphor for subversive activity that remains central to our political vocabulary. In Going Underground, Lara Langer Cohen excavates the long history of this now familiar idea while seeking...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Lara Langer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2022]
Temas:
African Americans > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.
African Americans > Race identity.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History > 19th century.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century .
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: a basement shut off and forgotten during the nineteenth century
  • 1 The "Blackness of Darkness" in Mammoth Cave
  • 2 Early Black Radical Undergrounds
  • 3 The Underground Railroad's Undergrounds
  • 4 The Depths of Astonishment: city mysteries and subterranean unknowability
  • 5 " To Drop beneath the Floors of the Outer World" paschal Beverly Randolph's occult undergrounds
  • 6 Subterranean Fire: anarchist visions of the underground
  • Epilogue: staying underground
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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