Impossible Witnesses : : Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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McBride, Dwight,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2002]
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Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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