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Fugitive Borders : Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century / Nele Sawallisch.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: American Culture Studies ; 13Publisher: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (218 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783839445020
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 810.9/896071 23
LOC classification:
  • PR9185.6.B57 S29 2019
  • PR120.B55 S29 2019
Other classification:
  • HQ 4045
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Fugitive Borders -- 2. Religion -- 3. Radicalism -- 4. Heroism -- 5. Community -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
Summary: 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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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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