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- catalog abstract ""In The Slumbering Volcano, Maggie Montesinos Sale investigates depictions of nineteenth-century slave ship revolts to explore the notion of rebellion in formulations of United States national identity. Analyzing how such revolts inspired citizens to debate whether political theory directed at free men could be extended toward blacks, Sale compares the reception of fictionalized versions of ship revolts published in the 1850s - Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass - with the previous decade's public accounts of actual rebellions by enslaved people on the ships Amistad and Creole." "This comparison of narrative response with written public reaction to the actual revolts allows Sale to investigate the precise manner in which public opinion regarding definitions of liberty evolved over this crucial period of time between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Mapping the ways in which unequally empowered groups claimed and transformed statements associated with the discourse of national identity, Sale succeeds in recovering a historically informed sense of the discursive and activist options available to people of another era." "In its demonstration of how the United States has been uniquely shaped by its dual status as both an imperial and a postcolonial power, this study on the discourse of natural rights and national identity in the pre-Civil War United States will interest students and scholars of American studies, African American studies, gender studies, and American history and literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10442181.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""In The Slumbering Volcano, Maggie Montesinos Sale investigates depictions of nineteenth-century slave ship revolts to explore the notion of rebellion in formulations of United States national identity. Analyzing how such revolts inspired citizens to debate whether political theory directed at free men could be extended toward blacks, Sale compares the reception of fictionalized versions of ship revolts published in the 1850s - Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass - with the previous decade's public accounts of actual rebellions by enslaved people on the ships Amistad and Creole." "This comparison of narrative response with written public reaction to the actual revolts allows Sale to investigate the precise manner in which public opinion regarding definitions of liberty evolved over this crucial period of time between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Mapping the ways in which unequally empowered groups claimed and transformed statements associated with the discourse of national identity, Sale succeeds in recovering a historically informed sense of the discursive and activist options available to people of another era." "In its demonstration of how the United States has been uniquely shaped by its dual status as both an imperial and a postcolonial power, this study on the discourse of natural rights and national identity in the pre-Civil War United States will interest students and scholars of American studies, African American studies, gender studies, and American history and literature."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 264 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Slumbering volcano.".
- catalog identifier "0822319837 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0822319926 (paper : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Slumbering volcano.".
- catalog isPartOf "New Americanists".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press,".
- catalog relation "Slumbering volcano.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "305.896/073 21".
- catalog subject "E447 .S25 1997".
- catalog subject "Masculinity United States History 19th century Sources.".
- catalog subject "Masculinity United States History Sources.".
- catalog subject "National characteristics, American History 19th century Sources.".
- catalog subject "Slave insurrections United States History Sources.".
- catalog subject "Slave insurrections United States Sources.".
- catalog subject "Slavery in literature.".
- catalog subject "White supremacy movements United States History 19th century Sources.".
- catalog title "The slumbering volcano : American slave ship revolts and the production of rebellious masculinity / Maggie Montesinos Sale.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "Sources. fast".
- catalog type "text".