Bernier, Celeste-Marie, <br/><br/>
Characters of blood :  black heroism in the transatlantic imagination / 
Celeste-Marie Bernier. 
 - Charlottesville :  University of Virginia Press,  (c)2012. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813933252 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Black people in literature.<br/>Black people in art.<br/>Heroes in literature.<br/>Heroes in art.<br/>Slavery in literature.<br/>Slavery in art.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56  / .C437 2012