Title: Fugitive vision : slave image and Black identity in antebellum narrative /
Authors: Chaney, Michael A.
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: American literature History and criticism; Slavery in literature; American literature African American authors History and criticism; Visual perception in literature.; Abolitionists United States Intellectual life.; Art and literature United States History; African Americans in literature; African Americans Intellectual life
Contents: 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.