Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British Culture

Giles, Paul

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“…7 On the Amistad case and Benito Cereno, see Karcher 1992. 8 On the topic of transnationalism in The Heroic Slave, see earlier essays by Ivy Wilson (2006) and Paul Giles (2001).…”

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Enforcement on a Grand Scale: Fugitive Intelligence and the Literary Tactics of Douglass and Melville

Hole¹

2013

American Literature

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As works which had similarly evoked slave-ship revolt as topics for their prose fictions in the mid-1850s, Douglass’s The Heroic Slave and Melville’s Benito Cereno, Hole’s essay argues, offer noticeably distinct aesthetic, rhetorical, and stylistic presentations of slave rebellion and of conflict itself—that is, conflict as an aesthetic device within narrative as well as the thing being narrated, the manifestation of force between actors aboard the slave ship. Because the enforcement of US law and security by 1850 tended toward something supra-territorial if not transnational in scope and range—in fact, superseding the interests of the national body politic—Douglass and Melville also had to conceptualize how conflict was attendant with this enforcement, how conflict manifested both on a grander scale and in specific instances and intensities. The figure of the fugitive allowed each to theorize, dramatically and imaginatively, a set of relations that reflected their conceptualizations of conflict and strife within their nineteenth-century moment—conceptualizations, too, of US power if we understand this power as an arrangement that makes possible certain orders or types of conflict.

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“…7 On the Amistad case and Benito Cereno, see Karcher 1992. 8 On the topic of transnationalism in The Heroic Slave, see earlier essays by Ivy Wilson (2006) and Paul Giles (2001).…”

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Enforcement on a Grand Scale: Fugitive Intelligence and the Literary Tactics of Douglass and Melville

Hole¹

2013

American Literature

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Black Nature

Newman¹

2019

The Literary Heritage of the Environmental Justice Movement

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‘As a lever gains power by its distance from the fulcrum’: tracing Frederick Douglass in the Irish Atlantic World

Mulligan

2016

Social & Cultural Geography

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Following the publication of his autobiography and fearing recapture and return to slavery, in 1845 the abolitionist Frederick Douglass embarked on an 18-month lecture tour of the United Kingdom, during which his thinking on the subject of abolitionism developed significantly. While this period in Douglass' life has received only modest scholarly attention, even less has been paid to the fact that the tour commenced in Ireland-then arguably more akin to a colony than an integral region of the UK. Drawing on archival research and scholarship that advocates for a more interconnected sense of place, a more oceanic perspective on history and consequently a better sense of how political activity is forged relationally, the paper traces Douglass' journey through the Irish nodes of the abolitionist Atlantic network. In the process, it considers the degree to which Douglass was influenced by this colonial and deeply sectarian society, it illuminates a forgotten world of Irish abolitionist activity, and contributes to debates regarding intersecting histories and geographies in the Atlantic World. "De la même manière qu'un levier obtient sa puissance selon sa distance du point d'appui": sur les traces de Frederick Douglass dans le monde atlantique irlandais RÉSUMÉ Suite à la publication de son autobiographie et craignant d'être à nouveau capturé et renvoyé à l'esclavage, en 1845, l'abolitionniste Frederick Douglass se lança dans une tournée de conférences autour du Royaume-Uni pendant dix-huit mois, durant lesquels sa réflexion sur le sujet de l'abolitionnisme évolua considérablement. Cette période de la vie de Douglass n'a guère suscité d'intérêt parmi les chercheurs, et encore moins, le fait que cette tournée ait commencé en Irlande, probablement plus proche d'une colonie à l'époque que faisant partie intégrante du Royaume-Uni. S'appuyant sur l'examen d'archives et une recherche qui prône un meilleur sens interconnecté d'appartenance à un lieu, un point de vue plus océanique de l'histoire et par conséquent, une meilleure idée de la façon dont l'activité politique se forge d'un point de vue relationnel, cet article retrace le voyage de Douglass à travers les noeuds irlandais du réseau abolitionniste

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Narrative Reversals and Power Exchanges: Frederick Douglass and British Culture

Cited by 19 publications

References 37 publications

Enforcement on a Grand Scale: Fugitive Intelligence and the Literary Tactics of Douglass and Melville

Enforcement on a Grand Scale: Fugitive Intelligence and the Literary Tactics of Douglass and Melville

Black Nature

‘As a lever gains power by its distance from the fulcrum’: tracing Frederick Douglass in the Irish Atlantic World

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