Rebellious histories
Subtitle: the Amistad slave revolt and the cultures of late twentieth-century black transnationalism
By: Matthew J. Christensen
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781438439709; 9781438439693
Subjects: Slave insurrections; Amistad (Schooner); History; Antislavery movements; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : rebellious histories; title: Cinque/Sengbe : naming the transnational subject; title: Cannibals in the postcolony : Charlie Haffner's Amistad Kata-Kata and the moral economy of global consumption; title: Neoliberal masculinity, black transnationalism, and the United States ; disappearing borders in Amistad and echo of lions; title: Enslaving globalization : trans-atlantic slavery, Civil War, and modernity in Raymond Desouza-George's The broken handcuff; title: Conclusion : rebellious futures.