ISBN:
9780812298642
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 354 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cutter, Martha J. The many resurrections of Henry Box Brown
DDC:
306.3/62092 B
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Brown, Henry Box 1816-1897
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USA
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Rezeption
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Darstellende Kunst
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Massenkultur
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Geschichte
Abstract:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations for Archives Consulted -- Introduction. The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown, the Man Who Mailed Himself to Freedom -- Chapter 1. Slavery and Freedom in US Visual Culture: The Performative Personae of William Wells Brown, William and Ellen Craft, Frederick Douglass, and Sojourner Truth -- Chapter 2. Becoming Box Brown, 1815-1857 -- Chapter 3. Performing Fugitivity: Henry Box Brown on the Nineteenth-Century British Stage, 1857 -- Chapter 4. Performing New Panoramas, Mesmerism, Spiritualism, and Second Sight, England, 1857-1875 -- Color Plates -- Chapter 5. Canada, the United States, and Beyond: Performing Slavery and Freedom, 1875-1897 -- Chapter 6. The Absent Presence: Henry Box Brown in Contemporary Museums, Memorials, and Visual Art -- Chapter 7. Playing in the Archives: Box Brown in Contemporary Children's Literature and Visual Poetry -- Coda. The Resilience of Box Brown and the Afterlives of Slavery -- Appendix. Selected Contemporary Creative Works About Henry Box Brown -- Notes -- Index.
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