Characters of blood : black heroism in the transatlantic imagination /
Bernier, Celeste-Marie.
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: "Suppose Nat Turner painted?" -- Introduction. "Their names colonized off": remembering and reimagining black heroism -- "I shed my blood": Toussaint Louverture, myth, history, and the transatlantic imagination -- "N.T. 11 11 31": Nathaniel Turner, symbolism, memorialization, and an experimental poetics -- "No right to be a hero": Sengbe Pieh, resistance, representation, and the politics of seeing -- "Tickety-ump-ump-nicky-nacky": re-creating, reknowing, and refiguring sojourner truth -- "A work of art": Frederick Douglass's "living parchments" and "chattel records" -- "I've seen de real ting": Harriet Tubman, performance, and multiple personae -- Conclusion. "Portals, containers, time capsules, and bridges": acts and arts of black heroism in textual and visual archives.
Blacks in literature.
Blacks in art.
Heroes in literature.
Heroes in art.
Slavery in literature.
Slavery in art.
Characters of blood.