Characters of blood : Black heroism in the transatlantic imagination /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2012
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman - challenged the dominant conceptualizations of their histories and played a key role in the construction of an alternative visual and textual archive. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 435 pages) : color illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-418) and index. |
ISBN: | 0813933250 9780813933252 1283834766 9781283834766 |