Black Atlas : Geography and Flow in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature

Madera, Judith

Duke University Press（2015/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780822357971
• DDC分類 810.9896073

Full Description

Black Atlas presents definitive new approaches to black geography. It focuses attention on the dynamic relationship between place and African American literature during the long nineteenth century, a volatile epoch of national expansion that gave rise to the Civil War, Reconstruction, pan-Americanism, and the black novel. Judith Madera argues that spatial reconfiguration was a critical concern for the era's black writers, and she also demonstrates how the possibility for new modes of representation could be found in the radical redistricting of space. Madera reveals how crucial geography was to the genre-bending works of writers such as William Wells Brown, Martin Delany, James Beckwourth, Pauline Hopkins, Charles Chesnutt, and Alice Dunbar-Nelson. These authors intervened in major nineteenth-century debates about free soil, regional production, Indian deterritorialization, internal diasporas, pan-American expansionism, and hemispheric circuitry. Black geographies stood in for what was at stake in negotiating a shared world.
 

Contents

Acknowledgments  vii

Introduction. On Meaningful Worlds  1

1. National Geographic: The Writtings of William Wells Brown  24

2. Indigenes of Territory: Martin Delany and James Beckwourth  69

3. This House of Gathering: Axis Americanus  110

4. Civic Geographies and Intentional Communities  151

5. Creole Heteroglossia: Counter-Regionalism and the New Orleans Short Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson  190

Epilogue. Post Scale: Place as Emergence  211

Notes  219

Bibliography  261

Index  285