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The Slave's Rebellion [[electronic resource] ] : Literature, History, Orature



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Autore: Adâeõáekõâo Adâelâeke Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Slave's Rebellion [[electronic resource] ] : Literature, History, Orature Visualizza cluster
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 insurrections - Historiography
Slave insurrections in literature
Oral tradition
African Americans in literature
Slavery in literature
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-07150-5
0-253-11142-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457618503321
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