Fugitive Borders : Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century

• Tác giả: Nele Sawallisch
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3837645026
• ISBN-13: 978-3839445020
• ISBN: transcript.9783839445020
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 810.9896071 American literature in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2018
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (218 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 233061
• Chủ đề: 1. Literary studies: general; 2. Migration, immigration & emigration; 3. Social & cultural history

Tóm tắt

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.