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008 010525s2001 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aPS366.A35$bM38 2001
082 00 $a306.3/62/0973$221
049 $aMAIN
100 1 $aMcBride, Dwight A.
245 10 $aImpossible witnesses :$btruth, abolitionism, and slave testimony /$cDwight A. McBride.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$c©2001.
300 $axvi, 205 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: bearing witness: memory, theatricality, the body, and slave testimony -- Abolitionist discourse: a transatlantic context; Abolitionist discourse and romanticism ; Reflections on abolitionist discourse in England ; Reflections on abolitionist discourse in the U.S. -- "I know what a slave knows": Mary Prince as witness, or the rhetorical uses of experience -- Appropriating the word: Phillis Wheatley, religious, rhetoric, and the poetics of liberation -- Speaking as "the African": Olaudah Equiano's Moral argument against slavery -- Consider the audience: witnessing to the discursive reader in Douglass's Narrative.
520 $aBlack 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.
590 $bInternet Archive - 2
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650 0 $aAmerican prose literature$xAfrican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAntislavery movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAmerican prose literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSlaves$zUnited States$xBiography$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xBiography$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
650 0 $aSlaves' writings, American$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSlaves$zUnited States$xIntellectual life.
650 0 $aAutobiography$xAfrican American authors.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aSlavery in literature.
650 7 $aEscravidão.$2larpcal
650 7 $aAbolicionismo.$2larpcal
650 7 $aLiteratura norte-americana.$2larpcal
650 7 $aMovimentos ideológicos.$2larpcal
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648 7 $a1800-1899$2fast
655 4 $aBiography.
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 $iOnline version:$aMcBride, Dwight A.$tImpossible witnesses.$dNew York : New York University Press, ©2001$w(OCoLC)747305355
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001003176.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0734/2001003176-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0807/2001003176-d.html
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