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Fugitive Borders Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century Nele Sawallisch
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Sawallisch, Nele <p>Nele Sawallisch, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Deutschland</p>, Author.
- Series:
- American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Volume 13.
- American Culture Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black Canada.
- 19th Century.
- Slave Narrative.
- Life Writing.
- Borders.
- Literary History.
- Literature.
- America.
- Cultural History.
- American Studies.
- Migration.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Black Canada.
- 19th Century.
- Slave Narrative.
- Life Writing.
- Borders.
- Literary History.
- Literature.
- America.
- Cultural History.
- American Studies.
- Migration.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 pages).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Sawallsich, Fugitive Borders Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Nele Sawallisch (PhD) works as a lecturer at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, where she completed her doctoral dissertation in 2017. She has a background in English, French, and education and completed a trinational curriculum for teachers in Mainz/Germany, Dijon/France, and Lennoxville/Quebec. Her research focuses on African Canadian and African American literatures and cultures, particularly of the nineteenth century.
- Summary:
- Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.
- »›Fugitive Borders‹ shows how Black cross-border life writing at midnineteenth century speaks of the history of slavery and the experiences of the formerly enslaved and fugitive with idiosyncratic voices. Undoubtedly, readers of ›Fugitive Borders‹ will want to hear, understand, and learn more from them.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 9 1. Fugitive Borders 13 2. Religion 35 3. Radicalism 59 4. Heroism 101 5. Community 151 Conclusion 199 Bibliography 205
- Notes:
- Thesis (doctoral)--Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, 2017.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- ISBN:
- 9783839445020
- 3839445027
- OCLC:
- 1083590658
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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