Characters of blood : Black heroism in the transatlantic imagination /

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Across the centuries, the acts and arts of Black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In this book, the author illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women - Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernier, Celeste-Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012
Temas:
Black people in literature.
Black people in art.
Heroes in literature.
Heroes in art.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in art.
Personnes noires dans la littérature.
Personnes noires dans l'art.
Héros dans la littérature.
Héros dans l'art.
Esclavage dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Black people in art
Black people in literature
Heroes in art
Heroes in literature
Slavery in art
Slavery in literature
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface : "Suppose Nat Turner painted?"
  • Introduction : "Their names colonized off" : remembering and reimagining Black heroism
  • "I shed my blood" : Toussaint Louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination
  • "N.T. 11 11 31" : Nathaniel Turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics
  • "No right to be a hero" : Sengbe Pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing
  • "Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky" : re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring Sojourner Truth
  • "A work of art" : Frederick Douglass's "Living Parchments" and "Chattel Records"
  • "I've see de real ting" : Harriet Tubman, performance, and multiple personae
  • Conclusion : "Portals, containers, time capsules, and bridges" : acts and arts of Black heroism in textual and visual archives
  • Afterword / George Lipsitz.

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