Characters of Blood (häftad)
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464
Utgivningsdatum
2012-12-06
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University of Virginia Press
Illustrationer
illustrations
ISBN
9780813933252

Characters of Blood E-bok

Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination

av Celeste-Marie Bernier
E-bok (LCP),  Engelska, 2012-12-06
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Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women-Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman-challenged the dominant conceptualizations of their histories and played a key role in the construction of an alternative visual and textual archive.While these figures have survived as symbolic touchstones, Bernier contends that scholars have yet to do justice to their complex bodies of work or their multifaceted lives. Adopting a comparative and transatlantic approach to her subjects' remarkable life stories, the author analyzes a wealth of creative work-from literature, drama, and art to public monuments, religious tracts, and historical narratives-to show how it represents enslaved heroism throughout the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean. In mapping this black diasporic tradition of resistance, Bernier intends not only to reveal the limitations and distortions on record but also to complicate the definitions of black heroism that have been restricted by ideological boundaries between heroic and anti-heroic sites and sights of struggle.
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"Characters of Blood" weaves together analyses from scholarly and imaginative literature and visual material in astounding ways, proving that a 'transatlantic' debate about the black as hero has existed and persisted from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Bernier reminds us how powerful the narrative of the hero--and efforts to exclude black men and women from it--has been in Western culture. A superb intellectual history.--Jeffrey C. Stewart, University of California at Santa Barbara, author of "Paul Robeson: Artist and Citizen"

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Celeste-Marie Bernier is Professor of American Studies at the University of Nottingham and the author of "African American Visual Arts: From Slavery to the Present."

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