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Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century

Fugitive Borders: Black Canadian Cross-Border Literature at Mid-Nineteenth Century

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Series: American Culture Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral World HistoryImmigration & Refugees

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ISBN10: 3837645029
ISBN13: 9783837645026
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Published: Sep 17 2019
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of nineteenth-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For this purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.

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