The black avenger in Atlantic culture / Grégory Pierrot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pierrot, Grégory, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people in literature.

Revenge in literature.

Heroes in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]

Summary:

"The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture explores a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915, a symbolic date marking one end of a regularly renewed representational tradition. In its long ranging analysis, Black Avengers offers the tools to analyze a profusion of heroes in popular imagination of the present day"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Stillbirth of a nation: roots of the black avenger

Genii of the nations: the black avenger between England and France

A tale of two avengers: the Haitian Revolution and the racial politics of novelty

Fear of a Black America: literary racial uprisings in the Antebellum United States

American hero: the black avenger in the age of U.S. empire.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780820354927

0820354929

9780820354910

0820354910

OCLC:

1052872728