Where Is All My Relation?

The Poetics of Dave the Potter
Herausgeber: Chaney, Michael A

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Produktbeschreibung

Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199390205
• ISBN-10: 0199390207
• Artikelnr.: 50988769

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Chaney is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College and the author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Identity in Antebellum Narrative (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations
* Introduction
* Chapter 1: 'Great and Noble Jar': David Drake, George Moses Horton,
and the Possibilities of Poetry Faith Barrett
* Chapter 2: A Letter to David Drake from a Friend and a Relation Evie
Shockley
* Chapter 3: Shifted Perspectives on Dave: Implications of
Archaeological Excavation at the Pottersville Kiln Site George Calfas
* Chapter 4: Inscribing Economic Desire: Dave the Potter's Money
Inscriptions Xiomara Santamarina
* Chapter 5: Signifying Jars, Resonating Like a Banjar: Influence,
Politics, and Poetics in Dave's Pottery Babatunde Lawal
* Chapter 6: The Fourth of July is Surely Come Elisa Edwards
* Chapter 7: The Concatenate Poetics of Slavery and the Articulate
Material of Dave the Potter Michael A. Chaney
* Chapter 8: Writing in Clay: The Materiality of Dave's Poetry Ethan W.
Lasser
* Chapter 9: 1857: Dave the Potter's August Pots, Sexual Imagery, and
Dred Scott P. Gabrielle Foreman
* Chapter 10: An Easter Prayer, 1859 Carla L. Peterson
* Chapter 11: Beneath Notice: A Social Philology of the Poetry of Dave
the Potter Jon Woodson
* Chapter 12: Accident Before Love, on "horses, mules, and hogs -"
Sharon P. Holland
* Chapter 13: Potter's Field: Trauma and Representation in the Art of
David Drake Michael Bramwell
* Chapter 14: Darion McCloud as Dave the Potter: The Model and the
Artist's Mission Dianne Johnson
* Chapter 15: 'Who Are The Other Potters? What Are Their Names?': Dave
the Potter, Theaster Gates, and the Aesthetics of Power in African
American Art and Craft Shelly Jarenski