Fugitive Borders Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century

• Auteur principal: Sawallisch, Nele (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: transcript Verlag 2018
• Sujets: Literature: history & criticism; Social & cultural history; Migration, immigration & emigration; Literary Criticism; American; History; Social History; Social Science; Emigration & Immigration
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Résumé

Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.

ISBN

/doi.org/10.14361/9783839445020
9783839445020

Accès

Open Access