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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461260603321

Autore

Christensen Matthew J

Titolo

Rebellious histories [[electronic resource] ] : the Amistad slave revolt and the cultures of late twentieth-century black transnationalism / / Matthew J. Christensen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : SUNY Press, c2011

ISBN

1-4384-3971-7

1-4619-0451-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (205 p.)

Disciplina

326/.80973

Soggetti

Slave insurrections - United States

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History - 20th century

Antislavery movements - United States

Sierra Leonean literature

Electronic books.

Sierra Leone History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : rebellious histories -- Cinque/Sengbe : naming the transnational subject -- Cannibals in the postcolony : Charlie Haffner's Amistad Kata-Kata and the moral economy of global consumption -- Neoliberal masculinity, black transnationalism, and the United States ; disappearing borders in Amistad and echo of lions -- Enslaving globalization : trans-atlantic slavery, Civil War, and modernity in Raymond Desouza-George's The broken handcuff -- Conclusion : rebellious futures.