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050		4	_aPS366.A35 M38 2001
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082	0	4	_a306.3/62/0973
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aMcBride, Dwight _eautore
245	1	0	_aImpossible Witnesses : _bTruth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony / _cDwight McBride.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bNew York University Press, _c[2002]
264		4	_c©2002
300			_a1 online resource
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520			_aEven the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the truth" about slavery? Impossible Witnesses explores these questions through a study of fiction, poetry, essays, and slave narratives from the abolitionist era. Linking the racialized discourses of slavery and Romanticism, it boldly calls for a reconfiguration of U.S. and British Romanticism that places slavery at its center. Impossible Witnesses addresses some of the major literary figures and representations of slavery in light of discourses on natural rights and law, offers an account of Foucauldian discourse analysis as it applies to the problem of "bearing witness," and analyzes specific narratives such as "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," and "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano." A work of great depth and originality, Impossible Witnesses renders traditional interpretations of Romanticism impossible and places Dwight A. McBride at the forefront of studies in race and literature.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650		0	_aAfrican Americans in literature.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xHistory and criticism _vBiography.
650		0	_aAfrican Americans _xIntellectual life.
650		0	_aAmerican prose literature _zUnited States _xAfrican American authors _xHistory and criticism _y19th century.
650		0	_aAmerican prose literature _zUnited States _xHistory and criticism _y19th century.
650		0	_aAntislavery movements _zUnited States _xHistory _y19th century.
650		0	_aAutobiography _xAfrican American authors.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons _xHistory and criticism _vBiography.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons _xIntellectual life.
650		0	_aEnslaved persons' writings, American _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aSlavery in literature.
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759738
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814759738/original
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