Introduction -- Mapping the field -- Friends of freedom: female editorship and transatlantic communities of affection in The liberty bell -- Gendered global geographies of American antislavery literature in The liberty bell -- Travelling beyond the slave narrative: African American women's autobiography -- Travelling letters of antislavery: African American women's epistolary writing -- Antislavery, immigration, and German American women's literature.
Summary:
"Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and audiences of antislavery literature. Pia Wiegmink draws attention to locales, authors, and webs of entanglement between texts, ideas, and people. Perceived through the lens of gender and transnationalism, American antislavery literature emerges as a body of writing that presents profoundly reconfigured literary imaginations of freedom and equality in the United States prior to the Civil War"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
European perspectives on the United States, 2666-724X ; 4
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