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Description

1. viii, 263 pages; 23 cm

Summary

1. "The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture explores a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915, a symbolic date marking one end of a regularly renewed representational tradition. In its long ranging analysis, Black Avengers offers the tools to analyze a profusion of heroes in popular imagination of the present day"--

Subject

1. Black people in literature
2. Revenge in literature
3. Heroes in literature

Contents

1. Stillbirth of a nation: roots of the black avenger -- Genii of the nations: the black avenger between England and France -- A tale of two avengers: the Haitian Revolution and the racial politics of novelty -- Fear of a Black America: literary racial uprisings in the Antebellum United States -- American hero: the black avenger in the age of U.S. empire.

Call number

1. Sc E 19-1138

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Pierrot, Grégory, author.

Title

1. The black avenger in Atlantic culture / Grégory Pierrot.

Publisher

1. Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2018036508

ISBN

1. 9780820354927 paperback alkaline paper
2. 0820354929 paperback alkaline paper
3. 9780820354910 hardcover alkaline paper
4. 0820354910 hardcover alkaline paper

Research call number

1. Sc E 19-1138