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Fire on the Water : Sailors, Slaves, and Insurrection in Early American Literature, 1789-1886 / Lenora Warren.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850Publisher: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (181 p.) : 2Content type:
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  • 9781684480210
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 810.9/35873 23
LOC classification:
  • PS217.S55 W37 2019
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary: 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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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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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 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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