Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative - Rilegato

Chaney, Michael A.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0253349443 ISBN 13: 9780253349446

Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines the writings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Harriet Jacobs, and the slave potter David Drake. Juxtaposing pictorial and literary representations, the book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists. From a portrait of Douglass's mother as Ramses to the incised snatches of proverb and prophesy on Dave the Potter's ceramics, the book identifies a "fugitive vision" that reforms our notions of antebellum black identity, literature, and cultural production.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Michael A. Chaney is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Indiana Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0253349443
• ISBN 13: 9780253349446
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 254