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Black liberation in the Americas / Fritz Gysin, Christopher Mulvey (eds.).

Contributor(s): Gysin, Fritz | Mulvey, Christopher | Collegium for African American Research. Conference (3rd : 1999 : Münster, Germany)
Material type: TextTextSeries: FORECAAST: v. 6.Publisher: Münster, Germany : Lit, 2001Distributor: New Brunswick, N.J. : Distributed in North America by Transaction PublishersDescription: vii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 3825851370 (pbk.)Subject(s): Antislavery movements -- America | Slavery in literature -- History and criticism | Slavery in artBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Liberating the Black Americas / Fritz Gysin and Christopher Mulvey -- "Out of that Black skin" : agency and attitude in the landscape of slavery / John Michael Vlach -- A is not for agency : the politics of benevolence in abolitionist children's literature / Cynthia S. Hamilton -- Bodies of resistance : bodies of American people, American texts, and the American nation / Boris Vejdovsky -- Trading slavery and liberation in the Americas : the Spanish-American connection in the works of Olaudah Equiano, Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, and Sutton E. Griggs / Heiner Bus -- The 1898 Wilmington Massacre in history and literature : an essay on the discourse of power / Walter Hölbling and Justine Tally -- "Social surgery" : medicine and race in Charles Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition / Stephanie Browner -- Conflicting politics of liberation : the reconstruction period in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy (1892) and Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966) / Christine Gerhardt -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the color line / Hanna Wallinger -- Militant autobiography : the case of Assata Shakur / Helene Christol -- Incorporating metaphors : victimization and empowerment in Gayl Jones's Eva's man / Veronica Watson -- A dream deferred? Languages and spaces of resistance in Caribbean women's fiction / Johanna X.K. Garvey -- African/American transformations in Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia / Hermine Pinson -- "Stuck in the Promised Land" : African American poets at the edge of the twenty-first century / Lorenzo Thomas -- The politics of African American literary and cultural critique : from the Black arts/Black aesthetic movement to a Black postmodern multiculturalism / Günter H. Lenz -- Liberating views/views of liberation : the photographic side of the Black consciousness movement / Iris Schmeisser -- The discourse of liberation, the deployment of silence, and the "liberation" of discourse / Sabine Sielke.

" ... originated in the workshops of the third Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conference held at the University of Münster, Germany in 1999"--P. iii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Liberating the Black Americas / Fritz Gysin and Christopher Mulvey -- "Out of that Black skin" : agency and attitude in the landscape of slavery / John Michael Vlach -- A is not for agency : the politics of benevolence in abolitionist children's literature / Cynthia S. Hamilton -- Bodies of resistance : bodies of American people, American texts, and the American nation / Boris Vejdovsky -- Trading slavery and liberation in the Americas : the Spanish-American connection in the works of Olaudah Equiano, Herman Melville, Martin R. Delany, and Sutton E. Griggs / Heiner Bus -- The 1898 Wilmington Massacre in history and literature : an essay on the discourse of power / Walter Hölbling and Justine Tally -- "Social surgery" : medicine and race in Charles Chesnutt's The marrow of tradition / Stephanie Browner -- Conflicting politics of liberation : the reconstruction period in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy (1892) and Margaret Walker's Jubilee (1966) / Christine Gerhardt -- Alice Dunbar-Nelson and the color line / Hanna Wallinger -- Militant autobiography : the case of Assata Shakur / Helene Christol -- Incorporating metaphors : victimization and empowerment in Gayl Jones's Eva's man / Veronica Watson -- A dream deferred? Languages and spaces of resistance in Caribbean women's fiction / Johanna X.K. Garvey -- African/American transformations in Melvin B. Tolson's Libretto for the Republic of Liberia / Hermine Pinson -- "Stuck in the Promised Land" : African American poets at the edge of the twenty-first century / Lorenzo Thomas -- The politics of African American literary and cultural critique : from the Black arts/Black aesthetic movement to a Black postmodern multiculturalism / Günter H. Lenz -- Liberating views/views of liberation : the photographic side of the Black consciousness movement / Iris Schmeisser -- The discourse of liberation, the deployment of silence, and the "liberation" of discourse / Sabine Sielke.

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