The black avenger in Atlantic culture / Grégory Pierrot.

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"The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture explores a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pierrot, Grégory (Author)
Language:English
Published: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2019]
Subjects:
Black people in literature.
Revenge in literature.
Heroes in literature.
Physical Description:viii, 263 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Stillbirth of a nation: roots of the black avenger
  • Genii of the nations: the black avenger between England and France
  • A tale of two avengers: the Haitian Revolution and the racial politics of novelty
  • Fear of a Black America: literary racial uprisings in the Antebellum United States
  • American hero: the black avenger in the age of U.S. empire.