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Slumbering Volcano

American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity

Autor: Maggie Sale

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Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: Duke University Press

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In "The Slumbering Volcano", Maggie Montesinos Sale investigates depictions of nineteenth-century sl...

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Autor

Maggie Sale

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

1997

Pagini

280

EAN

9780822319832

ISBN

0822319837

Enbook ID

04936808

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

558

Dimensiuni

229 x 152 x 26

Descriere completă

In "The Slumbering Volcano", Maggie Montesinos Sale investigates depictions of nineteenth-century slave ship revolts to explore the notion of rebellion in formulations of United States national identity. Analysing how such revolts inspired citizens to debate whether political theory directed at free men could be extended toward blacks, Sale compares the reception of fictionalised versions of ship revolts published in the 1850s - "Benito Cereno" by Herman Melville and "The Heroic Slave" by Frederick Douglass - with the previous decade's public accounts of actual rebellions by enslaved people on the ships Amistad and Creole.This comparison of narrative response with written public reaction to the actual revolts allows Sale to investigate the precise manner in which public opinion regarding definitions of liberty evolved over this crucial period of time between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Mapping the ways in which unequally empowered groups claimed and transformed statements associated with the discourse of national identity, Sale succeeds in recovering a historically informed sense of the discursive and activist options available to people of another era. In its demonstration of how the United States has been uniquely shaped by its dual status as both an imperial and a postcolonial power, this study on the discourse of natural rights and national identity in the pre-Civil War United States will interest students and scholars of American studies, African American studies, gender studies, and American history and literature.