Title Fugitive borders : Black Canadian cross-border literature at mid-nineteenth century / Nele Sawallisch

Published Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (218 pages) Series American Culture Studies ; volume 13 American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 13. Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Fugitive Borders; 1.1 Writing the Promised Land and Black; North America in the 1850s; 1.2 Transnationalizing Black Canadian Studies; 1.3 Towards Cross-Border Black; Literary Studies; 2. Religion -- Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of Rev. Richard Warren, (A Fugitive Slave.) (1856); 2.1 Warren's Religious Slave Narrative; 2.2 Canada West's Religious Geography; 2.3 Genealogies; 3. Radicalism -- A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man) (1851); 3.1 Place-ing Black Life Writing in the 1850s; 3.2 Overture: Establishing the Extraordinary 3.3 Underground Railroad Workand Conflicted Communities; 3.4 The Best National Freedom?; 3.5 Radical Genealogy:; Smallwood and Walker; 4. Heroism -- Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro (1855); 4.1 Ward's Autobiography:; Alternative Black Life Writing; 4.2 United States: Religious Anti-slavery; and the Black Gentleman; 4.3 Canada West: A Theory of Heroic Fugitives; 4.4 Great Britain: Allegiances of the Modern Black Gentleman and Alternative Historiography; 5. Community Twenty-Two Years a Slave and Forty Years a Freeman (1857); 5.1 Through the Looking Glass; 5.2 Mosaic Stories; Reformist Agendas Rebellion and ViolenceFugitives; "Indians"; 5.3 Cross-Border Stories of Canada West; Conclusion; Bibliography; Primary Sources: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; Secondary Sources: Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 15, 2019) Subject Authors, Black -- Canada -- 19th century -- History and criticism Enslaved persons' writings, American -- Canada -- 19th century Slavery -- United States -- History -- 19th century Slavery -- Canada -- History -- 19th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Authors, Black. Slavery. Slaves' writings, American. Canada. United States. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783839445020 3839445027

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