Atlantic crossings in the wake of Frederick Douglass : archaeology, literature, and spatial culture / edited by Mark P. Leone, Lee M. Jenkins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

P. Leone, Mark, editor.

Jenkins, Lee, editor.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; Volume 197.

Cross/Cultures, 0924-1426 ; Volume 197

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895.

Douglass, Frederick.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2017.

Summary:

Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass takes its bearings from the Maryland-born former slave Frederick Douglass’s 1845 sojourn in Ireland and Britain—a voyage that is understood in editors Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins’ collection as paradigmatic of the crossings between American, African American, and Irish historical experience and culture with which the collection as a whole is concerned. In crossing the Atlantic, Douglass also completed his journey from slavery to freedom, and from political and cultural marginality into subjective and creative autonomy. Atlantic Crossings traces the stages of that journey in chapters on literature, archaeology, and spatial culture that consider both roots and routes —landscapes of New World slavery, subordination, and state-sponsored surveillance, and narratives of resistance, liberation, and intercultural exchange generated by transatlantic connectivities and the transnational transfer of ideas. Contributors Lee M. Jenkins, Mark P. Leone, Katie Ahern, Miranda Corcoran, Ann Coughlan, Kathryn H. Deeley, Adam Fracchia, Mary Furlong Minkoff, Tracy H. Jenkins, Dan O’Brien, Eoin O’Callaghan, Elizabeth Pruitt, Benjamin A. Skolnik and Stefan Woehlke

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Frederick Douglass and the Transatlantic Classroom / Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins

Transatlantic Roots: Cultural Uses of Plants at the Wye House Plantation / Elizabeth Pruitt

Montpelier: The Making of an African-American Landscapes / Stefan Woehlke

Between Freedom and Slavery: Understanding the Material Landscapes of Labour in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore and Texas, Maryland / Adam Fracchia

Frederick Douglass, Arthur O’Connor, and the Columbian Orator / Ann Coughlan

Domestic Labour in Black and Green: Deciphering the Sensory Experiences of African-American and Irish Domestics Working in Alexandria, Virginia / Mary Furlong Minkoff

“A nice Catholic girl ruined by a dirty foreigner”: Foreign and Domestic Censorship in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy / Dan O’Brien

Negative Space and Narrative Elision in Twentieth-Century Soviet and American Fiction: Towards a Transnational Aesthetic of Paranoid Representation / Miranda Corcoran

Allies and Intersections: Douglass, Archaeology, and the Knitting Together of Progressive Movements / Tracy H. Jenkins

William Faulkner, Whiteness, and the Transnational Short Story / Eoin O’Callaghan

Who’s Who and How Can We Tell?: The Archaeology of Group Identity and Demonstrating Belonging in Nineteenth-Century African-American Annapolis / Kathryn H. Deeley

“I read them, over and over again, with an interest that was ever increasing”: Language and Education in Frederick Douglass and Anzia Yezierska / Katie Ahern

An Eagle on Their Buttons: Frederick Douglass, Archaeology, and Ideology / Benjamin A. Skolnik

Notes on the Contributors and Editors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-34348-2

OCLC:

987891673

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004343481 DOI