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.
Summary:
"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. occupation of Haiti in 1915, a symbolic date marking one end of a regularly renewed representational tradition. In its long ranging analysis, Black Avengers offers the tools to analyze a profusion of heroes in popular imagination of the present day"-- Provided by publisher.
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