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050 0 4 |a PS366.A35  |b M38 2001 
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100 1 |a McBride, Dwight A. 
245 1 0 |a Impossible Witnesses :   |b Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony /   |c Dwight A. McBride. 
264 1 |a New York :  |b New York University Press,  |c 2001. 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2012 
264 4 |c ©2001. 
300 |a 1 online resource (224 pages). 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index. 
505 0 |a Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction: Bearing Witness: Memory, Theatricality, -- the Body, and Slave Testimony 1 -- Abolitionist Discourse: A Transatlantic Context 16 -- Abolitionist Discourse and Romanticism 21 -- Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in England 25 -- African Humanity and the Possibility of Rage in Edgeworth, -- Cowper, and Opie 42 -- On Whiteness and Humanity: The Example of Blake's -- "The Little Black Boy" 59 -- Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in the U.S. 62 -- Emerson and the Fugitive Slave Law Toward a Theory -- of Whiteness 67 -- Troping the Slave: Margaret Fuller's Review of Douglasss -- Na,atie 75 -- The Body as Evidence: Garrison's Defense of David -- Walker's Appeal 78 -- 'I Know What a Slave Knows": Mary Prince as Witness, or -- the Rhetorical Uses of Experience 85 -- Appropriating the Word: Phillis Wheatley, Religious -- Rhetoric, and the Poetics of Liberation lo3 -- Speaking as "the African": Olaudah Equiano's Moral -- Argument against Slavery 120 -- Consider the Audience: Witnessing to the Discursive -- i Reader in Douglass's Narmrative 151 -- Afterword 173 -- 191 -- "Notes 177 -- Index 201 -- About the Author 207. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 0 |a Slavery in literature. 
650 0 |a African Americans in literature. 
650 0 |a Autobiography  |x African American authors. 
650 0 |a Slaves  |z United States  |x Intellectual life. 
650 0 |a Slaves' writings, American  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a African Americans  |x Intellectual life  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a African Americans  |x Biography  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Slaves  |z United States  |x Biography  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a American prose literature  |y 19th century  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Antislavery movements  |z United States  |x History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a American prose literature  |x African American authors  |x History and criticism. 
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830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
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945 |a Project MUSE - Custom Collection 
945 |a Project MUSE - Archive Complete Foundation 
945 |a Project MUSE - Archive Global Cultural Studies Foundation