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Online-Ressource (225 p.)
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9780253345967
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Episodes of slave rebellions such as Nat Turner's are central to speculations on the trajectory of black history and the goal of black spiritual struggles. Using fiction, history, and oral poetry drawn from the United States, the Caribbean, and Africa, this book analyzes how writers reinterpret episodes of historical slave rebellion to conceptualize their understanding of an ideal "master-less" future. The texts range from Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave and Alejo Carpentier's The Kingdom of this Wo
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Cover; c o n t e n t s; acknowledgments; introduction; 1. hegel's burden: the slave's counterviolence in philosophy, critical theory,and literature; 2. nat turner and plot making in earlyafrican american fiction; 3. reverse abolitionism and blackpopular resistance: the marrow oftradition; 4. slave rebellion, the great depression,and the "turbulence to come" forcapitalism: black thunder; 5. distilling proverbs of history fromthe haitian war of independence: theblack jacobins; 6. slave rebellion and magical realism:the kingdom of this world
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7. slavery in african literary discourse:orality contra realism in yorùbá oríkìand omo oló kùn esin8. prying rebellious subaltern consciousnessout of the clenched jaws of oraltraditions: efúnsetán aníwúrà; 9. reiterating the black experience:rebellious material bodies and theirtextual fates in dessa rose; conclusion: what is the meaningof slave rebellion; notes; bibliography; index;
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ISBN 9780253111425
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ISBN 9780253345967
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Slave's Rebellion : Literature, History, Orature
Sprache:
Englisch
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Electronic books
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