Fugitive Borders Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Bielefeld transcript Verlag transcript Verlag [Imprint] 2018Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (218 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
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- 9783837645026
- 9783839445020
- Interest qualifiers
- Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
- Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people
- Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples
- Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- Literature: history and criticism
- Literary studies: general
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social and ethical issues
- Migration, immigration and emigration
- History and Archaeology
- History
- History: specific events and topics
- Social and cultural history
- 19th Century
- 5 Interest qualifiers
- 5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
- 5PB Relating to peoples
- 5PBC Relating to migrant groups
- America
- American Studies
- Black Canada
- Borders
- Cultural History
- D Biography
- DS Literature
- DSB Literary studies
- J Society and Social Sciences
- JB Society and culture
- JBF Social and ethical issues
- JBFH Migration
- Life Writing
- Literary History
- Literary Studies
- Literature
- Literature and Literary studies
- Migration
- N History and Archaeology
- NH History
- NHT History
- NHTB Social and cultural history
- Slave Narrative
- cultures and other groupings of people
- diaspora communities or peoples
- ethnic groups
- general
- history and criticism
- immigration and emigration
- indigenous peoples
- specific events and topics
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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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