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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...

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Autor principal: Bernier, Celeste-Marie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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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