Black Cosmopolitanism : Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas /
"Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, newspaper editorials, and government documents that include texts by Frederick Douglass, the freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, and the Cuban poets Placido and Juan Francisco Manzano, Nwankwo explicates this growing self-consciousness ab...
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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Making of a Race (Man)
- The View from Above: Placido Through the Eyes of the Cuban Colonial Government and White Abolitionists
- The View from Next Door: Placido Through Black Abolitionists' Eyes
- Part Two: Both (Race) and (Nation)?
- On Being Black and Cuban: Race, Nation, and Romanticism in the Poetry of Placido
- "We Intend to Stay Here": The International Shadows in Frederick Douglass's Representations of African American Community
- "More a Haitian Than an American": Frederick Douglass and the Black World Beyond the United States
- Part Three: Negating Nation, Rejecting Race
- A Slave's Cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, and the Geography of Identity
- Disidentification as Identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Flight from Blackness.