Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass : Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture.

Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass takes its bearings from the Maryland-born former slave Frederick Douglass's 1845 sojourn in Ireland and Britain - a voyage that is understood in editors Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins' collection as paradigmatic of the crossings betwee...

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Main Author: P. Leone, Mark
Other Authors: Jenkins, Lee
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : BRILL, 2017.
Series:Cross/Cultures Ser.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: pt. I Roots and Routes: Sites of Slavery, Passages to Freedom
  • ch. One Transatlantic Roots: Cultural Uses of Plants at the Wye House Plantation / Elizabeth Pruitt
  • ch. Two Montpelier: The Making of an African-American Landscapes / Stefan Woehlke
  • ch. Three Between Freedom and Slavery: Understanding the Material Landscapes of Labour in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore and Texas, Maryland / Adam Fracchia
  • ch. Four Frederick Douglass, Arthur O'Connor, and the Columbian Orator / Ann Coughlan
  • pt. II Transatlantic Comparatives
  • ch. Five Domestic Labour in Black and Green: Deciphering the Sensory Experiences of African-American and Irish Domestics Working in Alexandria, Virginia / Mary Furlong Minkoff
  • ch. Six "A nice Catholic girl ruined by a dirty foreigner": Foreign and Domestic Censorship in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy / Dan O'Brien
  • ch. Seven Negative Space and Narrative Elision in Twentieth-Century Soviet and American Fiction: Towards a Transnational Aesthetic of Paranoid Representation / Miranda Corcoran
  • pt. III Creating Identities
  • ch. Eight Allies and Intersections: Douglass, Archaeology, and the Knitting Together of Progressive Movements / Tracy H. Jenkins
  • ch. Nine William Faulkner, Whiteness, and the Transnational Short Story / Eoin O'Callaghan
  • ch. Ten Who's Who and How Can We Tell?: The Archaeology of Group Identity and Demonstrating Belonging in Nineteenth-Century African-American Annapolis / Kathryn H. Deeley
  • ch. Eleven "I read them, over and over again, with an interest that was ever increasing": Language and Education in Frederick Douglass and Anzia Yezierska / Katie Ahern
  • Coda
  • Eagle on Their Buttons: Frederick Douglass, Archaeology, and Ideology / Benjamin A. Skolnik.