Fugitive Borders
Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Introduction
Seiten 9 - 12 -
1. Fugitive Borders
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2. Religion
Seiten 35 - 58 -
3. Radicalism
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4. Heroism
Seiten 101 - 150 -
5. Community
Seiten 151 - 198 -
Conclusion
Seiten 199 - 204 -
Bibliography
Seiten 205 - 218
19. Dezember 2018, 218 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-4502-6
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