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Autore: | Adâeõáekõâo Adâelâeke |
Titolo: | The Slave's Rebellion [[electronic resource] ] : Literature, History, Orature |
Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina: | 810.9896073 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Persona (resp. second.): | AdâeõáekõâoAdâelâeke |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Slave's Rebellion |
ISBN: | 1-282-07150-5 |
0-253-11142-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784578603321 |
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