Impossible Witnesses : : Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony / / Dwight McBride.
Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they d...
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McBride, Dwight, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Impossible Witnesses : Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony / Dwight McBride. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2002] ©2002 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Bearing Witness: Memory, Theatricality, the Body, and Slave Testimony -- 2. Abolitionist Discourse: A Transatlantic Context -- 3. “I Know What a Slave Knows” Mary Prince as Witness, or the Rhetorical Uses of Experience -- 4. Appropriating the Word Phillis Wheatley, Religious Rhetoric, and the Poetics of Liberation -- 5. Speaking as “the African” Olaudah Equiano’s Moral Argument against Slavery -- 6. Consider the Audience Witnessing to the Discursive Reader in Douglass’s Narrative -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the truth" about slavery? Impossible Witnesses explores these questions through a study of fiction, poetry, essays, and slave narratives from the abolitionist era. Linking the racialized discourses of slavery and Romanticism, it boldly calls for a reconfiguration of U.S. and British Romanticism that places slavery at its center. Impossible Witnesses addresses some of the major literary figures and representations of slavery in light of discourses on natural rights and law, offers an account of Foucauldian discourse analysis as it applies to the problem of "bearing witness," and analyzes specific narratives such as "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," and "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano." A work of great depth and originality, Impossible Witnesses renders traditional interpretations of Romanticism impossible and places Dwight A. McBride at the forefront of studies in race and literature. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) African Americans in literature. African Americans History and criticism Biography. African Americans Intellectual life. American prose literature United States African American authors History and criticism 19th century. American prose literature United States History and criticism 19th century. Antislavery movements United States History 19th century. Autobiography African American authors. Slavery in literature. Slaves History and criticism Biography. Slaves Intellectual life. Slaves' writings, American History and criticism. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814756041 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814759738.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759738 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814759738/original |
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