Madera Judith Madera

Black Atlas (eBook, PDF)

Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism, and the black novel. Judith Madera argues that spatial reconfiguration was a critical concern for the era's black writers, and she also demonstrates how the possibility for new modes of representation could be found in the radical redistricting of space. Madera reveals how crucial geography was to the genre-bending works of writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, James Beckwourth, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. These authors intervened in major nineteenth-century debates about free soil, regional production, Indian deterritorialization, internal diasporas, pan-American expansionism, and hemispheric circuitry. Black geographies stood in for what was at stake in negotiating a shared world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375951
• Artikelnr.: 54785513

Autorenporträt

Judith Madera

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Introduction. On Meaningful Worlds  1
1. National Geographic: The Writtings of William Wells Brown  24
2. Indigenes of Territory: Martin Delany and James Beckwourth  69
3. This House of Gathering: Axis Americanus  110
4. Civic Geographies and Intentional Communities  151
5. Creole Heteroglossia: Counter-Regionalism and the New Orleans Short
Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson  190
Epilogue. Post Scale: Place as Emergence  211
Notes  219
Bibliography  261
Index  285