Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative

by Michael A. Chaney

Book Overview

Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, Fugitive Vision examines the writings of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, William and Ellen Craft, and Harriet Jacobs, and the slave potter David Drake. Juxtaposing pictorial and literary representations, the book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253221080
• ISBN13: 9780253221087
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher