Fugitive vision : slave image and Black identity in antebellum narrative / Michael A. Chaney

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Contents: Racing and erasing the slave mother: Frederick Douglass, parodic looks, and ethnographic illustration -- Looking for slavery at the Crystal Palace: William Wells Brown and the politics of exhibition(ism) -- The uses in seeing: mobilizing the portrait in drag in Running a thousand miles for freedom -- Panoramic bodies: from Banvard's Mississippi to Brown's Iron collar -- The mulatta in the camera: Harriet Jacobs's historicist gazing and Dion Boucicault's mulatta obscura -- Throwing identity in the poetry-pottery of Dave the potter

Topic: American literature--History and criticism; Slavery in literature; American literature--African American authors--History and criticism; Visual perception in literature; Abolitionists--Intellectual life; Art and literature--History; African Americans in literature; African Americans--Intellectual life