Impossible Witnesses : Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McBride, Dwight A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, 2001.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Autobiography > African American authors.
Slaves > United States > Intellectual life.
Slaves' writings, American > History and criticism.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 19th century.
African Americans > Biography > History and criticism.
Slaves > United States > Biography > History and criticism.
American prose literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
American prose literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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