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Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
[Dissertation]
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 ... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Literatur; Kulturgeschichte; Migration; Literaturgeschichte; Sklaverei
Klassifikation
Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik
Freie Schlagwörter
Black Canada; 19th Century; Slave Narrative; Life Writing; Borders; America; American Studies; Literary Studies
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2018
Verlag
transcript Verlag
Erscheinungsort
Bielefeld
Seitenangabe
218 S.
Schriftenreihe
American Culture Studies, 13
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445020
ISSN
2747-4380
ISBN
978-3-8394-4502-0
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0