Characters of blood [electronic resource] : Black heroism in the transatlantic imagination / Celeste-Marie Bernier.
Across the centuries, the acts and arts of Black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In this book, the author illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women - Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pi...
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2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : "Suppose Nat Turner painted?"
- Introduction : "Their names colonized off" : remembering and reimagining Black heroism
- "I shed my blood" : Toussaint Louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination
- "N.T. 11 11 31" : Nathaniel Turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics
- "No right to be a hero" : Sengbe Pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing
- "Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky" : re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring Sojourner Truth
- "A work of art" : Frederick Douglass's "Living Parchments" and "Chattel Records"
- "I've see 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 / George Lipsitz.