This book argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction, not only through the traditional concept of surveillance (top-down), but also the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below).
This book argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction, not only through the traditional concept of surveillance (top-down), but also the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below).Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Kelly Ross is Associate Professor of English at Rider University where she teaches courses in American literature, African American literature, and crime fiction and film. Her essays have appeared in PMLA, The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Politics, The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe, Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition, and Leviathan.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * 1: Fugitive Slave Narratives as a Literature of Sousveillance * 2: Inconspicuous and Conspicuous Detection in Ball and Poe * 3: White Oversight in The Confessions of Nat Turner, Benito Cereno, and The Heroic Slave * 4: Speculation Fiction: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Bondwoman's Narrative * Coda * Acknowledgements * Bibliography
* Introduction * 1: Fugitive Slave Narratives as a Literature of Sousveillance * 2: Inconspicuous and Conspicuous Detection in Ball and Poe * 3: White Oversight in The Confessions of Nat Turner, Benito Cereno, and The Heroic Slave * 4: Speculation Fiction: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Bondwoman's Narrative * Coda * Acknowledgements * Bibliography
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