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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Illustrations; preface "suppose nat turner painted?"; acknowledgments; introduction "their names colonized off" remembering and reimagining black heroism; chapter 1 "i shed my blood" toussaint louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination; chapter 2 "n.t. 11 11 31" nathaniel turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics; chapter 3 "no right to be a hero" sengbe pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing; chapter 4 "tickety-ump-ump-nicky nacky" re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring sojourner truth |
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Chapter 5 "a work of art" frederick douglass's "living parchments" and "chattel records"chapter 6 "i've seen 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; afterword the black body as proof: black heroism in the transatlantic imagination; notes; selected bibliography; index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Black people in literature.
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Black people in literature. |
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Black people in art.
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Black people in art. |
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Heroes in literature.
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Heroes in literature. |
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Heroes in art.
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Heroes in art. |
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Slavery in literature.
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Slavery in literature. |
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Slavery in art.
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Slavery in art. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780813933245 0813933242 (DLC) 2012015852 |
| ISBN |
0813933250 electronic book |
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9780813933252 electronic book |
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9780813933245 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0813933242 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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