Impossible witnesses : truth, abolitionism, and slave testimony /
Dwight A. McBride
Bok · Engelsk · 2001
| Utgitt | New York : : New York University Press, , c2001.
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| Omfang | xvi, 207 s. ;
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| Opplysninger | 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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| Emner | African Americans in literature.
African Americans - Biography - History and criticism. African Americans - Intellectual life American prose literature - African American authors - History and criticism. Vis mer... American prose literature - History and criticism.
Antislavery movements - History - United States Autobiography - African American authors. Slavery in literature. Slaves - Biography - History and criticism. - United States Slaves - Intellectual life. - United States Slaves' writings, American - History and criticism. Slaveri |
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| ISBN | 0814756042. - 0814756050
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