Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination

by Celeste-Marie Bernier

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Across the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self-reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste-Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and women--Toussaint Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman--challenged the dominant conceptualizations of their histories...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0813933242

ISBN13:9780813933245

Release Date:December 2012

Publisher:University of Virginia Press

Length:464 Pages

Weight:1.80 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.2" x 9.5"

Age Range:22 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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