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Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
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Abstract 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 ... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
literature; cultural history; migration; literary history; slavery
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
Free Keywords
Black Canada; 19th Century; Slave Narrative; Life Writing; Borders; America; American Studies; Literary Studies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
218 p.
Series
American Culture Studies, 13
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445020
ISSN
2747-4380
ISBN
978-3-8394-4502-0
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0