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dc.contributor.authorSawallisch, Nele
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-23T09:55:50Z
dc.date.available2022-03-23T09:55:50Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifierONIX_20220323_9783839445020_8
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53547
dc.description.abstractFugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAmerican Culture Studies
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: generalen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigrationen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoplesen_US
dc.subject.otherBlack Canada
dc.subject.other19th Century
dc.subject.otherSlave Narrative
dc.subject.otherLife Writing
dc.subject.otherBorders
dc.subject.otherLiterary History
dc.subject.otherLiterature
dc.subject.otherAmerica
dc.subject.otherCultural History
dc.subject.otherAmerican Studies
dc.subject.otherMigration
dc.subject.otherLiterary Studies
dc.titleFugitive Borders
dc.title.alternativeBlack Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.14361/transcript.9783839445020
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c
oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9783839445020
oapen.relation.isbn9783837645026
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprinttranscript Verlag
oapen.series.number13
oapen.pages218
oapen.place.publicationBielefeld
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