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Characters of blood : black heroism in the transatlantic imagination / Celeste-Marie Bernier.
Van Pelt Library PN56.3.B55 B47 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernier, Celeste-Marie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people in literature.
- Black people in art.
- Heroes in literature.
- Heroes in art.
- Slavery in literature.
- Slavery in art.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 435 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
- Contents:
- 1 "I Shed My Blood": Toussaint Louverture, Myth, History, and the Transatlantic Imagination 27
- 2 "NT. 11 11 31": Nathaniel Turner, Symbolism, Memorialization, and an Experimental Poetics 89
- 3 "No Right to Be a Hero": Sengbe Pieh, Resistance, Representation, and the Politics of Seeing 152
- 4 "Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky": Re-creating, Reknowing, and Refiguring Sojourner Truth 200
- 5 "A Work of Art": Frederick Douglass's "Living Parchments" and "Chattel Records" 251
- 6 "I've Seen de Real Ting": Harriet Tubman, Performance, and Multiple Personae 299.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780813933245
- 0813933242
- 9780813933252
- 0813933250
- OCLC:
- 793099506
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