03855nam 2200733 a 450 991082762250332120200520144314.01-282-07150-50-253-11142-0(CKB)1000000000362383(EBL)267713(OCoLC)475993074(SSID)ssj0000246726(PQKBManifestationID)11188607(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246726(PQKBWorkID)10189651(PQKB)10100548(MiAaPQ)EBC267713(EXLCZ)99100000000036238320041207d2005 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe slave's rebellion literature, history, orature /Adeleke Adeeko1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Press20051 online resource (225 p.)Blacks in the diasporaDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-34596-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-199) and index.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 world7. 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; indexEpisodes 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 theBlacks in the diaspora.American literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticismAfrican AmericansIntellectual lifeNigerian fiction (English)History and criticismSlave insurrectionsHistoriographySlave insurrections in literatureOral traditionCaribbean AreaAfrican Americans in literatureOral traditionAfricaSlavery in literatureAmerican literatureAfrican American authorsHistory and criticism.African AmericansIntellectual life.Nigerian fiction (English)History and criticism.Slave insurrectionsHistoriography.Slave insurrections in literature.Oral traditionAfrican Americans in literature.Oral traditionSlavery in literature.810.9896073Adeeko Adeleke1719857MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827622503321The slave's rebellion4194856UNINA