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Characters of blood : black heroism in the transatlantic imagination / by Bernier, Celeste-Marie,author.(CARDINAL)305913;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-418) and index.Preface: "Suppose Nat Turner painted?" -- Introduction. "Their names colonized off": remembering and reimagining black heroism -- "I shed my blood": Toussaint Louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination -- "N.T. 11 11 31": Nathaniel Turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics -- "No right to be a hero": Sengbe Pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing -- "Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky": re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring sojourner truth -- "A work of art": Frederick Douglass's "living parchments" and "chattel records" -- "I've seen de real ting": Harriet Tubman, performance, and multiple personae -- Conclusion. "Portals, containers, time capsules, and bridges": acts and arts of black heroism in textual and visual archives.
Subjects: Black people in art.; Black people in literature.; Heroes in art.; Heroes in literature.; Slavery in art.; Slavery in literature.;
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Slavery and the culture of taste / by Gikandi, Simon,author.(CARDINAL)820036; Princeton University Press,publisher.(CARDINAL)817932;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-352) and index.It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time. Gikandi focuses on the ways that the enslavement of Africans and the profits derived from this exploitation enabled the moment of taste in European--mainly British--life, leading to a transformation of bourgeois ideas regarding freedom and selfhood. He explores how these connections played out in the immense fortunes made in the West Indies sugar colonies, supporting the lavish lives of English barons and altering the ideals that defined middle-class subjects. Discussing how the ownership of slaves turned the American planter class into a new aristocracy, Gikandi engages with the slaves' own response to the strange interplay of modern notions of freedom and the realities of bondage, and he emphasizes the aesthetic and cultural processes developed by slaves to create spaces of freedom outside the regimen of enforced labor and truncated leisure. Through a close look at the eighteenth century's many remarkable documents and artworks, Slavery and the Culture of Taste sets forth the tensions and contradictions entangling a brutal practice and the distinctions of civility.--Publisher description.
Subjects: Slavery in literature.; Slavery;
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Empire and slavery in American literature, 1820-1865 / by Sundquist, Eric J.(CARDINAL)280740;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-243) and index.The land of promise -- Exploration and empire -- To muse on nations passed away -- The frontier and American Indians -- No more auction block for me -- The literature of slavery and African American culture.
Subjects: American literature; Slavery in literature.; African Americans in literature.; Indians in literature.;
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Anti-slavery sentiment in American literature prior to 1865. by Turner, Lorenzo Dow.(CARDINAL)161995;
Bibliography: pages 153-182.Ch. 1. The Anti-Slavery Movement Prior to the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade -- Ch. 2 The Transition Period -- Ch. 3. The First Period of Militant Abolitionism -- Ch. 4. The Second Period of Militant Aboltionism -- Ch. 5. The Civil War Period -- Ch. 6. Conclusion.
Subjects: Bibliographies.; Slavery in literature.; Slavery; American literature; Slavery;
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Uncle Tom's cabin : evil, affliction, and redemptive love / by Donovan, Josephine,1941-(CARDINAL)514575;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-133) and index.
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.; Good and evil in literature.; Love in literature.; Plantation life in literature.; Redemption in literature.; Slavery in literature.;
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Uncle Tom's cabin and mid-nineteenth century United States : pen and conscience. by Reynolds, Moira Davison.(CARDINAL)509083;
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896; Abolitionists in literature.; Slavery in literature.; Social problems in literature.; Women in literature.;
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Uncle Tom's cabin and American culture / by Gossett, Thomas F.,1916-2005.(CARDINAL)173366;
Bibliography: pages 449-471.
Subjects: Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.; Slavery in literature.; African Americans in literature.; Race relations in literature.;
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Toni Morrison's Beloved ; Bloom's notes / by Bloom, Harold.(CARDINAL)138025;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Morrison, Toni.; Historical fiction, American; African American women in literature.; Infanticide in literature.; Slavery in literature.;
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Toni Morrison's Beloved / by Bloom, Harold.(CARDINAL)138025;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-121) and index.
Subjects: Morrison, Toni.; African American women in literature.; Historical fiction, American; Infanticide in literature.; Slavery in literature.;
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Beloved / by Bloom, Harold.(CARDINAL)138025; Bloom, Harold.(CARDINAL)138025;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Morrison, Toni.; African American women in literature.; Historical fiction, American; Infanticide in literature.; Slavery in literature.;
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