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The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity - Couverture souple

Sale, Maggie Montesinos

 
9780822319924: The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity
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ISBN 10 : 0822319926 ISBN 13 : 9780822319924
Editeur : Duke University Press, 1997

Synopsis

In The Slumbering Volcano, Maggie Montesinos Sale investigates depictions of nineteenth-century slave ship revolts to explore the notion of rebellion in formulations of United States national identity. Analyzing how such revolts inspired citizens to debate whether political theory directed at free men could be extended toward blacks, Sale compares the reception of fictionalized versions of ship revolts published in the 1850s--Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass--with the previous decade's public accounts of actual rebellions by enslaved people on the ships Amistad and Creole.
This comparison of narrative response with written public reaction to the actual revolts allows Sale to investigate the precise manner in which public opinion regarding definitions of liberty evolved over this crucial period of time between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Mapping the ways in which unequally empowered groups claimed and transformed statements associated with the discourse of national identity, Sale succeeds in recovering a historically informed sense of the discursive and activist options available to people of another era.
In its demonstration of how the United States has been uniquely shaped by its dual status as both an imperial and a postcolonial power, this study on the discourse of natural rights and national identity in the pre-Civil War United States will interest students and scholars of American studies, African American studies, gender studies, and American history and literature.

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À propos de l'auteur

Maggie Montesinos Sale is Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Assistant Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University.

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Éditeur
Duke University Press
Date d'édition
1997
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0822319926
ISBN 13 
9780822319924
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
280
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Personne responsable
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