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Amerikaanse literatuur --- African American aesthetics --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikaanse schrijvers --- Geschiedenis en kritiek --- African Americans in literature. --- African American aesthetics. --- American literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Aesthetics, African American --- Afro-American aesthetics --- Aesthetics, American --- African American authors --- History and criticism.
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By examining the unique problems that 'blackness' signifies in Moby-Dick, Pierre, 'Benito Cereno' and 'The Encantadas', Christopher Freeburg analyzes how Herman Melville grapples with the social realities of racial difference in nineteenth-century America. Where Melville's critics typically read blackness as either a metaphor for the haunting power of slavery or an allegory of moral evil, Freeburg asserts that blackness functions as the site where Melville correlates the sociopolitical challenges of transatlantic slavery and US colonial expansion with philosophical concerns about mastery. By focusing on Melville's iconic interracial encounters, Freeburg reveals the important role blackness plays in Melville's portrayal of characters' arduous attempts to seize their own destiny, amass scientific knowledge and perfect themselves. A valuable resource for scholars and graduate students in American literature, this text will also appeal to those working in American, African American and postcolonial studies.
Melville, Herman --- Criticism and interpretation --- Race relations in literature --- Literature and society --- United States --- History --- 19th century --- Blacks --- Race identity --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Melville, Herman, --- Melvill, German --- Melville, Hermann --- Meville, Herman --- Melvil, Cherman --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man --- Melṿil, Herman --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R. --- מלוויל, הרמן, --- מלויל, הרמן, --- ميلڤيل، هرمن، --- 麥爾維爾, --- Virginian spending July in Vermont, --- Melvill, Herman, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Race relations in literature. --- Black persons --- Black people --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature
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"Christopher Freeburg challenges the imperative to study black social life and slavery and its aftereffects through the lenses of freedom, agency, and domination and instead examines how enslaved Africans created meaning through spirituality, thought, and artistic creativity separate and alongside concerns about freedom."--
Slavery --- Slavery in literature. --- History. --- Sociological aspects.
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Sociology of minorities --- Thematology --- Literature --- Melville, Herman --- United States of America
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