Fugitive Borders : Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century / Nele Sawallisch.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: American Culture Studies ; 13Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9783839445020
- Authors, Black -- Canada -- 19th century -- Criticism and interpretation
- Authors, Black -- Canada -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Canadian literature -- Black authors -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Fugitive slaves -- Canada -- 19th century -- History
- Slave narratives -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Slavery -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
- Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Slaves -- Canada -- 19th century -- History
- Slaves' writings, American -- Canada -- 19th century
- 19th Century
- America
- American Studies
- Borders
- Cultural History
- Life Writing
- Literary History
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Migration
- Slave Narrative
- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
- 19th Century
- America
- American Studies
- Borders
- Cultural History
- Life Writing
- Literary History
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Migration
- Slave Narrative
- 810.9/896071 23
- PR9185.6.B57 S29 2019
- PR120.B55 S29 2019
- HQ 4045
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Fugitive Borders -- 2. Religion -- 3. Radicalism -- 4. Heroism -- 5. Community -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
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Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.
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