Fugitive Testimony: On the Visual Logic of Slave Narratives

Author:   Janet Neary
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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9780823272891


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 November 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Janet Neary
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780823272891


ISBN 10:   0823272893
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   01 November 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Fugitive Testimony Chapter 1: Sight Unseen: Contemporary Visual Slave Narratives Chapter 2: Behind the Scenes and Inside Out: Elizabeth Keckly's Use of the Slave Narrative Form Chapter 3: Optical Allusions: Textual Visuality in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Chapter 4: ""The Shadow of the Cloud"": Racial Speculation and Cultural Vision in Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave Chapter 5: Gestures Against Movements: Henry Box Brown and Economies of Narrative Performance Epilogue: Racial Violence, Racial Capitalism, and Reading Revolution Harriet Jacobs, John Jones, Kerry James Marshall, and Kyle Baker Acknowledgments Index"

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In this original book Janet Neary views nineteenth-century slave narratives through the lens of contemporary art. This innovative strategy enables her to bring into focus the visual work of slave narratives and their resistance to the conventions of authentication. This is an important book that demonstrates how literature participates in the concerns of visual culture and how nineteenth-century problems of race and representation persist in the present. -Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


In this original book Janet Neary views nineteenth-century slave narratives through the lens of contemporary art. This innovative strategy enables her to bring into focus the visual work of slave narratives and their resistance to the conventions of authentication. This is an important book that demonstrates how literature participates in the concerns of visual culture and how nineteenth-century problems of race and representation persist in the present. --Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Institute of Chicago


For researchers focused on the political and social dynamics of Southern society, this text is recommended. * Civil War News * In this original book Janet Neary views nineteenth-century slave narratives through the lens of contemporary art. This innovative strategy enables her to bring into focus the visual work of slave narratives and their resistance to the conventions of authentication. This is an important book that demonstrates how literature participates in the concerns of visual culture and how nineteenth-century problems of race and representation persist in the present. -- -Shawn Michelle Smith * School of the Art Institute of Chicago *


Author Information

Janet Neary is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-century African American Literature and Culture in the English Department, Hunter College, City University of New York.

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