LEADER 05369oam 22007094a 450 001 9910793920503321 005 20230719174009.0 010 $a1-68448-021-3 024 7 $a10.36019/9781684480210 035 $a(CKB)4100000010138484 035 $a(DE-B1597)541231 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781684480210 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6210855 035 $a(OCoLC)1128181078 035 $a(OCoLC)1273306522 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_83930 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010138484 100 $a20180713d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFire on the Water$eSailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 /$fLenora Warren 210 1$aLewisburg, Pennsylvania :$cBucknell University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018. 215 $a1 online resource (170 p.) $c2 225 0 $aTransits: literature, thought & culture 1650-1850 311 $a1-68448-017-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 1. Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade -- 2. Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility -- 3. Joseph Cinque, The Amistad Mutiny and Revolutionary Whitewashing -- 4. The Black and White Sailor: Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode -- Coda. 330 $a"This book tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. The book centers on four black sailors, whose experiences with slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction. Through these sailors and their fictional avatars, Warren argues that a lost history of the politics of insurrection resurfaces. This history has been either largely ignored or subsumed under the generic political anxieties of the abolitionist movement and widespread fears of a large-scale slave revolt. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. This book is a call to consider, or reconsider, how the confluence of politics, language, and narrative are complicit in shaping the ways in which we think about race and violence. Using the backdrop of the ocean to highlight both the expansive imaginary and the perilous reality of undoing oppressive hierarchies through mutiny, Fire On the Water challenges scholars to consider how violence gets categorized as "revolutionary" or "aberrant.""--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinque, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American$2bisacsh 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh$2bisacsh 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery$2bisacsh 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General$2bisacsh 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAbolitionists in literature 606 $aAntislavery movements in literature 606 $aSlave rebellions in literature 606 $aSlavery in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAbolitionists in literature. 615 0$aAntislavery movements in literature. 615 0$aSlave rebellions in literature. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9/35873 686 $aLIT004020$aSOC054000$aLIT004120$aLIT004040$2bisacsh 700 $aWarren$b Lenora$01572437 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793920503321 996 $aFire on the Water$93847377 997 $aUNINA