The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity (New Americanists)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (775 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822319926 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
An interesting book A Customer An interesting accounts that details to much on the fictionized stories concerning these slave revolts. The book seriously neglects what happen to the crews and the slaves themselves.
“The Slumbering Volcano theorizes the discourse of nationalism, natural rights, and race in a refreshingly undogmatic manner, making a splendid contribution to the growing body of theory on race, masculinity, and national identity formation.”—Carolyn Karcher, author of The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child, published by Duke University Press
. Analyzing how such revolts inspired citizens to debate whether political theory directed at free men could be extended toward blacks, Sale compares the reception of fictionalized versions of ship revolts published in the 1850s—Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass—with the previous decade’s public accounts of actual rebellions by enslaved people on the ships Amistad and Creole.This comparison of narrative response with written public