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- catalog abstract "Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described.".
- catalog alternative "Project Muse UPCC books net".
- catalog contributor b12318731.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index.".
- catalog description "Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction: Bearing Witness: Memory, Theatricality, -- the Body, and Slave Testimony 1 -- Abolitionist Discourse: A Transatlantic Context 16 -- Abolitionist Discourse and Romanticism 21 -- Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in England 25 -- African Humanity and the Possibility of Rage in Edgeworth, -- Cowper, and Opie 42 -- On Whiteness and Humanity: The Example of Blake's -- "The Little Black Boy" 59 -- Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in the U.S. 62 -- Emerson and the Fugitive Slave Law Toward a Theory -- of Whiteness 67 -- Troping the Slave: Margaret Fuller's Review of Douglasss -- Na,atie 75 -- The Body as Evidence: Garrison's Defense of David -- Walker's Appeal 78 -- 'I Know What a Slave Knows": Mary Prince as Witness, or -- the Rhetorical Uses of Experience 85 -- Appropriating the Word: Phillis Wheatley, Religious -- Rhetoric, and the Poetics of Liberation lo3 -- Speaking as "the African": Olaudah Equiano's Moral -- Argument against Slavery 120 -- Consider the Audience: Witnessing to the Discursive -- i Reader in Douglass's Narmrative 151 -- Afterword 173 -- 191 -- "Notes 177 -- Index 201 -- About the Author 207.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 205 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Impossible witnesses.".
- catalog identifier "0814756042 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0814756050 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Impossible witnesses.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New York University Press,".
- catalog relation "Impossible witnesses.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "306.3/62/0973 21".
- catalog subject "African Americans Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "African Americans Intellectual life 19th century.".
- catalog subject "African Americans in literature.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American prose literature African American authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Antislavery movements United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Autobiography African American authors.".
- catalog subject "PS366.A35 M38 2001".
- catalog subject "Slavery in literature.".
- catalog subject "Slaves United States Biography History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Slaves United States Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Slaves' writings, American History and criticism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments xi -- Introduction: Bearing Witness: Memory, Theatricality, -- the Body, and Slave Testimony 1 -- Abolitionist Discourse: A Transatlantic Context 16 -- Abolitionist Discourse and Romanticism 21 -- Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in England 25 -- African Humanity and the Possibility of Rage in Edgeworth, -- Cowper, and Opie 42 -- On Whiteness and Humanity: The Example of Blake's -- "The Little Black Boy" 59 -- Reflections on Abolitionist Discourse in the U.S. 62 -- Emerson and the Fugitive Slave Law Toward a Theory -- of Whiteness 67 -- Troping the Slave: Margaret Fuller's Review of Douglasss -- Na,atie 75 -- The Body as Evidence: Garrison's Defense of David -- Walker's Appeal 78 -- 'I Know What a Slave Knows": Mary Prince as Witness, or -- the Rhetorical Uses of Experience 85 -- Appropriating the Word: Phillis Wheatley, Religious -- Rhetoric, and the Poetics of Liberation lo3 -- Speaking as "the African": Olaudah Equiano's Moral -- Argument against Slavery 120 -- Consider the Audience: Witnessing to the Discursive -- i Reader in Douglass's Narmrative 151 -- Afterword 173 -- 191 -- "Notes 177 -- Index 201 -- About the Author 207.".
- catalog title "Impossible witnesses : truth, abolitionism, and slave testimony / Dwight A. McBride.".
- catalog type "text".