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Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 217

Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World

The events of Frederick Douglass’s early life are well known due to his famous autobiography, yet his extraordinary story continued for another fifty years beyond the struggles recounted in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. One of the unexamined aspects of this life is Douglass’s travels throughout the Atlantic world. Lengthy excursions to other countries including Egypt, Haiti, and particularly Ireland, had a profound effect on Douglass’s writing as well as his understanding of how identity is constructed along national, class, and racial lines. Fionnghuala Sweeney reveals that when abroad Douglass experienced entirely new responses to his status as a black man, a champion of the oppressed, and, most tellingly, as an American. In addition, Sweeney examines how his presence in these countries had a lasting effect on the people who attended his speeches. Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World offers a surprisingly fresh approach to a familiar figure and will appeal to scholars working in the fields of history, literature, and cultural studies—or anyone engaged with the implications of the United States as empire.

Researching Online
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 246

Researching Online

This book offers a clear and comprehensive introduction to the use of internet technology in research. It provides full accounts of the different ways in which online resources can help with research projects in any area of the social sciences or humanities along with useful hints and tips as to how you can make the internet work for you.

The Roots of Cane
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

The Roots of Cane

The Roots of Cane proposes a new way to read one of the most significant works of the New Negro Renaissance, Jean Toomer's Cane. John Young traces the many pieces of Cane that were dispersed across multiple modernist magazines from 1922 through 1923. Interweaving a periodical-studies approach to modernism with book history and critical race theory, Young resituates Toomer's uneasy place within Black modernism by asking how original readers would have encountered his work.

Impermanent Blackness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Impermanent Blackness

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960s In Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing—authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines—from the 1910s to the 1960s. Garibaldi shows how aspiring and established Black authors and editors worked closely with white interlocutors to achieve publishing success, often challenging stereotypes and advancing racial pluralism in the process. Impermanent Blackness explores the complex nature of this almost-forgotten period of interracial publishing by examining key dev...

Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth century American and European images of African Americans, art installations, photography, literature, sculpture, exhibitions, performances, painting, film and material culture. This is essential reading for historians, cultural critics, art-historians, educationalists and museologists, in America as in Europe, and an important contribution to the understanding of the African diaspora, race, Americ...

Advocates of Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Advocates of Freedom

A transatlantic study focusing on African American resistance through unexplored oratorical and performative testimony in the British Isles.

A History of the Harlem Renaissance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 453

A History of the Harlem Renaissance

This book presents original essays that explore the eclecticism of Harlem Renaissance literature and culture.

The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown

  • Categories: Art

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Difficult Diasporas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Difficult Diasporas

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-06
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

Winner of the 2013 Modern Language Association's William Sanders Scarborough Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Study of Black American Literature In this comparative study of contemporary Black Atlantic women writers, Samantha Pinto demonstrates the crucial role of aesthetics in defining the relationship between race, gender, and location. Thinking beyond national identity to include African, African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Black British literature, Difficult Diasporas brings together an innovative archive of twentieth-century texts marked by their break with conventional literary structures. These understudied resources mix genres, as in the memoir/ethnography/travel narrative Tell My H...

The Lives of Frederick Douglass
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

The Lives of Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass’s changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in his many conflicting accounts of events during his journey from slavery to freedom. Robert S. Levine creates a fascinating collage of this elusive subject—revisionist biography at its best, offering new perspectives on Douglass the social reformer, orator, and writer.