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Characters of blood : black heroism in the transatlantic imagination / Celeste-Marie Bernier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813933252
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN56 .C437 2012
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Contents:
Introduction : "Their names colonized off" : remembering and reimagining black heroism -- "I shed my blood" : Toussaint Louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination -- "N.T. 11 11 31" : Nathaniel Turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics -- "No right to be a hero" : Sengbe Pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing -- "Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky" : re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring Sojourner Truth -- "A work of art" : Frederick Douglass's "Living Parchments" and "Chattel Records" -- "I've see de real ting" : Harriet Tubman, performance, and multiple personae -- Conclusion : "Portals, containers, time capsules, and bridges" : acts and arts of black heroism in textual and visual archives.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Preface : "Suppose Nat Turner painted?" -- Introduction : "Their names colonized off" : remembering and reimagining black heroism -- "I shed my blood" : Toussaint Louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination -- "N.T. 11 11 31" : Nathaniel Turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics -- "No right to be a hero" : Sengbe Pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing -- "Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky" : re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring Sojourner Truth -- "A work of art" : Frederick Douglass's "Living Parchments" and "Chattel Records" -- "I've see de real ting" : Harriet Tubman, performance, and multiple personae -- Conclusion : "Portals, containers, time capsules, and bridges" : acts and arts of black heroism in textual and visual archives.

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