TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bernier,Celeste-Marie
TI  - Characters of blood: black heroism in the transatlantic imagination 
SN  - 9780813933252
AV  - PN56 .C437 2012
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Black people in literature
KW  - Black people in art
KW  - Heroes in literature
KW  - Heroes in art
KW  - Slavery in literature
KW  - Slavery in art
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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