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Fire on the Water: Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850

Autor Lenora Warren
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 iun 2019
Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny and insurrection in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature. Fire on the Water centers on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction: Olaudah Equiano, Denmark Vesey, Joseph Cinqué, Madison Washington, and Washington Goode. These stories of sailors, both real and fictional, reveal how the history of mutiny and insurrection is both shaped by, and resistant to, the prevailing abolitionist rhetoric surrounding the efficacy of armed rebellion as a response to slavery. Pairing well-known texts with lesser-known figures (Billy Budd and Washington Goode) and well-known figures with lesser-known texts (Denmark Vesey and the work of John Howison), this book reveals the richness of literary engagement with the politics of slave violence.

Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781684480173
ISBN-10: 1684480175
Pagini: 182
Ilustrații: 2
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Bucknell University Press
Colecția Bucknell University Press
Seria Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850


Notă biografică

Lenora Warren is an assistant professor of English at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Cuprins


Illustrations
Introduction
1                Witness to the Atrocities: Olaudah Equiano, Thomas Clarkson, and the Abolition of the Slave Trade
2                Denmark Vesey, John Howison, and Revolutionary Possibility
3                Joseph Cinqué, The Amistad Mutiny and Revolutionary Whitewashing
4                The Black and White Sailor:  Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor and the Case of Washington Goode
Coda
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
 

Recenzii

"This book shows Lenora Warren working fluidly across US literary studies, African American studies and the literature of the African diaspora, Atlantic history, oceanic studies, and colonial and Early Republic literature. The book's topic is superb: the role of black sailors, particularly enslaved or emancipated black sailors, has been woefully understudied (other than the historiographic work of Jeffrey Bolster in Black Jacks or the articles of Charles Foy). In locating both revolutionary potential and abolitionist inspiration in the insurrectionary activity of black sailors, Warren provides a fresh, exciting new unit of analysis for scholars and students of American literary history. I cannot stress enough how vital and necessary the topic is, and how overlooked it has been."


"Recommended." 

"Readers will find Fire on the Water an important contribution to the study of slavery and abolitionism. Moreover, this book also makes major contributions to Black Atlantic studies and to maritime and oceanic studies at large. Scholars working in these fields will find Warren’s book essential reading. They will also find the book’s clarity and concision impressive. Fire on the Water will teach well in both the undergraduate and graduate classrooms."

"An enjoyable, thought-provoking, and very rich book, which succeeds in the remarkable feat of adding an original voice to the study of several already well-rehearsed topics. Aimed primarily at literary scholars, it can also be of value for cultural and intellectual historians."

"This work can help scholars have more complicated conversations about abolitionist rhetoric’s role in silencing enslaved people and what impact that silencing continues to have on our understanding of Black experiences."

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Lenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mutiny in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Anglo-American and American literature by focusing on five black sailors, whose experiences of slavery and insurrection either inspired or found resonance within fiction.