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Author P. Leone, Mark.

Title Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass : Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture.

Publication Info. Boston : BRILL, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (302 pages).
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Series Cross/Cultures Ser.
Cross/Cultures Ser.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Roots and Routes: Sites of Slavery, Passages to Freedom -- ch. One Transatlantic Roots: Cultural Uses of Plants at the Wye House Plantation / Elizabeth Pruitt -- ch. Two Montpelier: The Making of an African-American Landscapes / Stefan Woehlke -- ch. Three Between Freedom and Slavery: Understanding the Material Landscapes of Labour in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore and Texas, Maryland / Adam Fracchia -- ch. Four Frederick Douglass, Arthur O'Connor, and the Columbian Orator / Ann Coughlan -- pt. II Transatlantic Comparatives -- ch. Five Domestic Labour in Black and Green: Deciphering the Sensory Experiences of African-American and Irish Domestics Working in Alexandria, Virginia / Mary Furlong Minkoff -- ch. Six "A nice Catholic girl ruined by a dirty foreigner": Foreign and Domestic Censorship in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy / Dan O'Brien -- ch. Seven Negative Space and Narrative Elision in Twentieth-Century Soviet and American Fiction: Towards a Transnational Aesthetic of Paranoid Representation / Miranda Corcoran -- pt. III Creating Identities -- ch. Eight Allies and Intersections: Douglass, Archaeology, and the Knitting Together of Progressive Movements / Tracy H. Jenkins -- ch. Nine William Faulkner, Whiteness, and the Transnational Short Story / Eoin O'Callaghan -- ch. Ten Who's Who and How Can We Tell?: The Archaeology of Group Identity and Demonstrating Belonging in Nineteenth-Century African-American Annapolis / Kathryn H. Deeley -- ch. Eleven "I read them, over and over again, with an interest that was ever increasing": Language and Education in Frederick Douglass and Anzia Yezierska / Katie Ahern -- Coda -- Eagle on Their Buttons: Frederick Douglass, Archaeology, and Ideology / Benjamin A. Skolnik.
Summary Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass takes its bearings from the Maryland-born former slave Frederick Douglass's 1845 sojourn in Ireland and Britain - a voyage that is understood in editors Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins' collection as paradigmatic of the crossings between American, African American, and Irish historical experience and culture with which the collection as a whole is concerned. In crossing the Atlantic, Douglass also completed his journey from slavery to freedom, and from political and cultural marginality into subjective and creative autonomy. Atlantic Crossings traces the stages of that journey in chapters on literature, archaeology, and spatial culture that consider both roots and routes - landscapes of New World slavery, subordination, and state-sponsored surveillance, and narratives of resistance, liberation, and intercultural exchange generated by transatlantic connectivities and the transnational transfer of ideas.
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Subject African Americans -- Social conditions -- To 1964.
African Americans -- Social conditions.
Chronological Term To 1964
Subject African Americans -- History.
African Americans.
History.
Irish Americans -- History.
Irish Americans.
Irish -- United States -- History.
Irish.
United States.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Jenkins, Lee.
Other Form: Print version: P. Leone, Mark. Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass : Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture. Boston : BRILL, ©2017 9789004342903
ISBN 9004343482
9789004342903
9004342907
9789004343481 (electronic book)