Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative by Micha

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Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, this book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists.

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Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines the writings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, William and Ellen Craft, and Harriet Jacobs, and the slave potter David Drake. Juxtaposing pictorial and literary representations, the book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists. From a portrait of Douglass's mother as Ramses to the incised snatches of proverb and prophecy on Dave the Potter's ceramics, the book identifies a "fugitive vision" that reforms our notions of antebellum black identity, literature, and cultural production.

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Author Biography

Michael A. Chaney is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Looking Beyond and Through the Fugitive IconPart 1. Fugitive Gender: Black Mothers, White Faces, Sanguine Sons1. Racing and Erasing the Slave Mother: Frederick Douglass, Parodic Looks, and Ethnographic Illustration2. Looking for Slavery at the Crystal Palace: William Wells Brown and the Politics of Exhibition(ism)3. The Uses in Seeing: Mobilizing the Portrait in Drag in Running a Thousand Miles for FreedomPart 2. Still Moving: Revamped Technologies of Surveillance4. Panoramic Bodies: From Banvard's Mississippi to Brown's Iron Collar5. The Mulatta in the Camera: Harriet Jacobs's Historicist Gazing and Dion Boucicault's Mulatta Obscura6. Throwing Identity in the Poetry-Pottery of Dave the PotterConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

Review

"An eye-opening analysis of major sites, figures, and figurations of African American authorship." Ezra Greenspan, Southern Methodist University

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"[T]his startlingly original, meticulously researched study opens up new ways of considering the acts of self-representation in visual objects and literary texts by African Americans."--Susan Belasco, American Literature ". . . the scholarship is excellent . . . Chaney's readings are exhaustive, persuasive, and murkily brilliant."-- Journal of American History ". . . emphasizes the relationship between the literary character of slave narratives and the iconic images that often accompanied those narratives in the form of frontispieces, illustrations, or panoramas. [The author's] attention to both the visual and the verbal elements of African American culture challenges and complicates the now-classic studies of slave narrative that tend to highlight the mastery of literacy as the key to self-mastery and, thus, liberty.vol. 9 no. 4.5 Sept. 2009"--Corey Capers, University of Illinois, Chicago "Fugitive Vision [is] an important and well-researched study . . . Michael A. Chaney makes a distinct contribution to the literature about slave-born men and women who were dedicated to the permanent liberation of minds and bodies."-- American Studies "An eye-opening analysis of major sites, figures, and figurations of African American authorship."--Ezra Greenspan, Southern Methodist University

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Details ISBN0253221080 Author Michael A. Chaney Short Title FUGITIVE VISION Publisher Indiana University Press Series Blacks in the Diaspora (Paperback) Language English ISBN-10 0253221080 ISBN-13 9780253221087 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2009 Imprint Indiana University Press Subtitle Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2009-03-18 AU Release Date 2009-03-18 NZ Release Date 2009-03-18 US Release Date 2009-03-18 Pages 272 Publication Date 2009-03-18 Alternative 9780253028761 DEWEY 809.93355 Illustrations 30 b&w photos Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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