Fugitive vision : slave image and Black identity in antebellum narrative /
Chaney, Michael A.
Bloomington : Indiana University Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-246) and index.
Racing and erasing the slave mother: Frederick Douglass, parodic looks, and ethnographic illustration -- Looking for slavery at the Crystal Palace: William Wells Brown and the politics of exhibition(ism) -- The uses in seeing: mobilizing the portrait in drag in Running a thousand miles for freedom -- Panoramic bodies: from Banvard's Mississippi to Brown's Iron collar -- The mulatta in the camera: Harriet Jacobs's historicist gazing and Dion Boucicault's mulatta obscura -- Throwing identity in the poetry-pottery of Dave the potter.
American literature
Slavery in literature.
American literature
Visual perception in literature.
Abolitionists
Art and literature
African Americans in literature.
African Americans