Fugitive Vision

by Chaney, Michael A.

• ISBN13: 9780253221087
• ISBN10: 0253221080
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-25
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Cultural subversions of the dominant representations of slavery

Author Biography

Michael A. Chaney is Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Looking Beyond and Through the Fugitive Icon	p. 1
Fugitive Gender: Black Mothers, White Faces, Sanguine Sons
Racing and Erasing the Slave Mother: Frederick Douglass, Parodic Looks, and Ethnographic Illustration	p. 17
Looking for Slavery at the Crystal Palace: William Wells Brown and the Politics of Exhibition(ism)	p. 49
The Uses in Seeing: Mobilizing the Portrait in Drag in Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom	p. 80
Still Moving: Revamped Technologies of Surveillance
Panoramic Bodies: From Banvard's Mississippi to Brown's Iron Collar	p. 113
The Mulatta in the Camera: Harriet Jacobs's Historicist Gazing and Dion Boucicault's Mulatta Obscura	p. 148
Throwing Identity in the Poetry-Pottery of Dave the Potter	p. 176
Conclusion	p. 209
Notes	p. 215
Works Cited	p. 235
Index	p. 247
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