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UNINA9910824983303321 |
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Autore |
Bernier Celeste-Marie |
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Titolo |
Characters of blood : black heroism in the transatlantic imagination / / Celeste-Marie Bernier |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-83476-6 |
0-8139-3325-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (479 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Black people in literature |
Black people in art |
Heroes in literature |
Heroes in art |
Slavery in literature |
Slavery in art |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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