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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784578603321

Autore

Adâeõáekõâo Adâelâeke

Titolo

The Slave's Rebellion [[electronic resource] ] : Literature, History, Orature

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-282-07150-5

0-253-11142-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Blacks in the diaspora The slave's rebellion

Disciplina

810.9896073

Soggetti

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism

American literature - African American authors - History and criticism - Caribbean Area

African Americans - Intellectual life - Africa

Nigerian fiction (English) - History and criticism

Slave rebellions - Historiography

Slave rebellions in literature

Oral tradition

African Americans in literature

Slavery in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; c o n t e n t s; acknowledgments; introduction; 1. hegel's burden: the slave's counter violence in philosophy, critical theory,and literature; 2. nat turner and plot making in early african american fiction; 3. reverse abolitionism and black popular resistance: the marrow of tradition; 4. slave rebellion, the great depression,and the "turbulence to come" for capitalism: black thunder; 5. distilling proverbs of history from the Haitian war of independence: the black jacobins; 6. slave rebellion and magical realism:the kingdom of this world

7. slavery in African literary discourse: orality contrarealism in yorùbá oríkìand omo oló kùn esin8. prying rebellious subaltern consciousness out of the clenched jaws of oral traditions: efúnsetán aníwúrà; 9. reiterating the black experience:rebellious material bodies and their



textual fates in dessa rose; conclusion: what is the meaning of slave rebellion; notes; bibliography; index

Sommario/riassunto

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 the