Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature write by Gesa Mackenthun. This book was released on 2004. Fictions of the Black Atlantic in American Foundational Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book applies critical concepts developed within postcolonial theory to American texts written between the national emergence of the United States and the Civil War.
Challenging the Black Atlantic
Challenging the Black Atlantic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Challenging the Black Atlantic write by John T. Maddox IV. This book was released on 2020-10-16. Challenging the Black Atlantic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois’s double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim–led revolt in Brazil’s “Black Rome.” These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015–2024) alter our understanding of Afro-Latin America as it gains increased visibility. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Black Frankenstein
Black Frankenstein - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Frankenstein write by Elizabeth Young. This book was released on 2008-08-10. Black Frankenstein available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans. Black Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of racial critique: they humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein's monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy—and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. Illuminating the power of parody and reappropriation, Black Frankenstein tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics.
Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy
Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy write by Alexandra Ganser. This book was released on 2020-08-11. Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Open Access book, Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy: 1678-1865, examines literary and visual representations of piracy beginning with A.O. Exquemelin’s 1678 Buccaneers of America and ending at the onset of the US-American Civil War. Examining both canonical and understudied texts—from Puritan sermons, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Red Rover, and Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” to the popular cross-dressing female pirate novelette Fanny Campbell, and satirical decorated Union envelopes, this book argues that piracy acted as a trope to negotiate ideas of legitimacy in the contexts of U.S. colonialism, nationalism, and expansionism. The readings demonstrate how pirates were invoked in transatlantic literary production at times when dominant conceptions of legitimacy, built upon categorizations of race, class, and gender, had come into crisis. As popular and mobile maritime outlaw figures, it is suggested, pirates asked questions about might and right at critical moments of Atlantic history.
Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction
Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction write by Patricia Okker. This book was released on 2012-06-12. Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transnationalism and American Serial Fiction explores the vibrant tradition of serial fiction published in U.S. minority periodicals. Beloved by readers, these serial novels helped sustain the periodicals and communities in which they circulated. With essays on serial fiction published from the 1820s through the 1960s written in ten different languages—English, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Italian, Polish, Norwegian, Yiddish, and Chinese—this collection reflects the rich multilingual history of American literature and periodicals. One of this book’s central claims is that this serial fiction was produced and read within an intensely transnational context: the periodicals often circulated widely, the narratives themselves favored transnational plots and themes, and the contents surrounding the fiction encouraged readers to identify with a community dispersed throughout the United States and often the world. Thus, Okker focuses on the circulation of ideas, periodicals, literary conventions, and people across various borders, focusing particularly on the ways that this fiction reflects the larger transnational realities of these minority communities.
