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Impossible witnesses truth, abolitionism, and slave testimony

Dwight A McBride

New York New York University Press c2001

Localização: FFLCH - Fac. Fil. Let. e Ciências Humanas (326.097 M119i )(Acessar)

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Título:
Impossible witnesses truth, abolitionism, and slave testimony
Autor: Dwight A McBride
Assuntos: American prose literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism; Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century; American prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Slaves -- United States -- Biography -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Biography -- History and criticism; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Slaves' writings, American -- History and criticism; Slaves -- United States -- Intellectual life; Autobiography -- African American authors; African Americans in literature; Slavery in literature; ESCRAVIDÃO; ABOLICIONISMO; LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA; MOVIMENTOS IDEOLÓGICOS
Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.
Descrição: Introduction: bearing witness: memory, theatricality, the body, and slave testimony -- Abolitionist discourse: a transatlantic context; Abolitionist discourse and romanticism ; Reflections on abolitionist discourse in England ; Reflections on abolitionist discourse in the U.S. -- "I know what a slave knows": Mary Prince as witness, or the rhetorical uses of experience -- Appropriating the word: Phillis Wheatley, religious, rhetoric, and the poetics of liberation -- Speaking as "the African": Olaudah Equiano's Moral argument against slavery -- Consider the audience: witnessing to the discursive reader in Douglass's Narrative
Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described
Editor: New York New York University Press
Data de criação/publicação: c2001
Formato: xvi, 207 p 24 cm.
Idioma: Inglês

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