Characters of blood, black heroism in the transatlantic imagination, Celeste-Marie Bernier
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Characters of blood, black heroism in the transatlantic imagination, Celeste-Marie Bernier
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Characters of blood
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bibliography
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Celeste-Marie Bernier
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black heroism in the transatlantic imagination
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Preface: "Suppose Nat Turner painted?" -- Introduction. "Their names colonized off": remembering and reimagining black heroism -- "I shed my blood": Toussaint Louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination -- "N.T. 11 11 31": Nathaniel Turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics -- "No right to be a hero": Sengbe Pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing -- "Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky": re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring sojourner truth -- "A work of art": Frederick Douglass's "living parchments" and "chattel records" -- "I've seen de real ting": Harriet Tubman, performance, and multiple personae -- Conclusion. "Portals, containers, time capsules, and bridges": acts and arts of black heroism in textual and visual archives
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