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02651cam a2200445 a 4500 001 6C50AB642B0011DEA052A807A8D7520A 005 200904162232.0 008 010525s2001 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2001003176 020 $a 9780814756058 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 0814756050 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780814756041 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 0814756042 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)47044779 035 $a (OCoLC)48627726 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d C#P $d CDS $d IWA $d SILO 050 00 $a PS366.A35 $b M38 2001 082 00 $a 306.3/62/0973 $2 21 100 1 $a McBride, Dwight A. 245 1 $a Impossible witnesses : $b truth, abolitionism, and slave testimony / $c Dwight A. McBride. 260 $a New York : $b New York University Press, $c c2001. 300 $a xvi, 205 p. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-199) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: bearing witness: memory, theatricality, the body, and slave testimony -- Abolitionist discourse: a transatlantic context; Abolitionist discourse and romanticism ; Reflections on abolitionist discourse in England ; Reflections on abolitionist discourse in the U.S. -- "I know what a slave knows": Mary Prince as witness, or the rhetorical uses of experience -- Appropriating the word: Phillis Wheatley, religious, rhetoric, and the poetics of liberation -- Speaking as "the African": Olaudah Equiano's Moral argument against slavery -- Consider the audience: witnessing to the discursive reader in Douglass's Narrative. 520 $a Black literary production during the 19th century was dominated by the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. This book examines how those authors bore witness to the experiences they described. 650 0 $a American prose literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Antislavery movements $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a American prose literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Slaves $z United States $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Slaves' writings, American $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Autobiography $x African American authors. 650 0 $a Slavery in literature. 939 $a 4538876 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020015539.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160820120615.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6C50AB642B0011DEA052A807A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWA 952 $l N5UX522 $d 20090701080000.0Initiate Another SILO Locator Search