Beyond Emancipation : Maroon Freedoms in US Literature, 1850-1862.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerrity, Sean.

Series:

SUNY Series in Multiethnic Literatures Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

Maroons in literature.

Liberty in literature.

Fugitive slaves in literature.

African Americans in literature.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.

Summary:

Explores how African American literary representations of maroons in the decade leading up to the Civil War complicate conventional narratives and geographies of slavery and freedom in the United States.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Canadas in the South

Chapter One: Swamp Things

Marronage as Interruption

Marronage as Refuge

Marronage and Im/mobility

Chapter Two: Beyond Revolt

The Background of Blake

Rethinking Marronage and Imagining Henry Blake as a Maroon

Into the Maroons' Landscape

Expanding the Maroon Landscape: Henry Blake in the North

Cuban Links

Chapter Three: Toward Stillness

Maroons and Marronage in Harriet Jacobs's World

Marronge in Incidents

A Maroon in the Garret

Alternative Freedom-Making in Incidents

Chapter Four: Emancipation, Interrupted

The Literary-Historical Madison Washington

"Marks, Traces, Possibles, and Probabilities"

Marronage at Sea

Back to the Swamp

Coda: Maroon Pasts, Maroon Futures

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0260-3

OCLC:

1520913042