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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824983303321

Autore

Bernier Celeste-Marie

Titolo

Characters of blood : black heroism in the transatlantic imagination / / Celeste-Marie Bernier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-83476-6

0-8139-3325-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (479 p.)

Disciplina

809/.8896

Soggetti

Black people in literature

Black people in art

Heroes in literature

Heroes in art

Slavery in literature

Slavery in art

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.

Sommario/riassunto

In mapping this black diasporic tradition of resistance, Bernier intends not only to reveal the limitations and distortions on record but to complicate the definitions of black heroism that have been restricted by ideological boundaries between heroic and anti-heroic sites and sights of struggle.