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Vernacular Geographies: Space, Power, and Slave Territoriality in the Favelas of Paulo Lins
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (1): 155–164.
Published: 01 March 2014
... the com plicated relationship between Afro-Brazilian territoriality and the Brazilian state. One of the m ost pro found conceptual fram es through which to understand these phenomena is his connection Ed w ard P iñuelas 157 between favela spatiality and slave spatiality. By narrativizing spatial...
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“How a Man Was Made a Slave”: Contraband, Chiasmus, and the Failure of Visual Abolitionism
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 175–179.
Published: 01 September 2006
... reconstructionism precisely by form alizing the picturable prospect of a new national subject, one fu lly assim ilable into the im a g in e d b o d y p olitic: viz, th e black ex-slave as s o ld ie r and w o u ld -b e citizen. If th e black Civil W ar portrait dignified blackness by conferring upon it the d ig n...
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Yeats's Rough Beast: The God for the Slaves
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English Language Notes (2000) 38 (2): 61–71.
Published: 01 December 2000
... Companion to Milton, ed. D ennis D anielson (New York: C am bridge UP, 1989) 156. YEATS S ROUGH BEAST: THE GOD FOR THE SLAVES In Yeats s The Second Com ing, two opposed visions of the A ntichrist clash: N ietzsche s vision, and that o f the Christian sect now known as Jehovah Witnesses b u t called M...
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Beyond the Confederacy: Who Remembers What When in Berlin and Richmond?
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 October 2019
... owned slaves enjoyed roles as public figures by working to keep the memory of the Confederacy alive, including by championing the erection of statues like these. This activism helped enable subsequent female family members to become public intellectuals and scholars. Scholarship on the origins...
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Mooring Aslima: Afro-Orientalist Diaspora in Claude McKay’s Pan-Atlantic Mediterranean Modernism
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
.... Maurophilia not only foregrounds Aslima’s associations with Spain and Morocco but also highlights McKay’s engagement with transhistorical Mediterranean diasporas, including the intra-African slave trade and Iberian Moriscos and conversos settling in North Africa following the Reconquista. This essay argues...
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An Archive of Hunger
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English Language Notes (2007) 45 (1): 149–159.
Published: 01 March 2007
... plantation in North Carolina and its owner, Josiah Collins III, one of the largest slave holders in the state. It is now a state historic site sitting on more than 100 acres o f lush forest and wetland. My party and I arrived early Saturday morning, parked near the over seer's quarters, and walked the red...
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Archives of the Dispossessed: Mourning, Memory, and Metahistory
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 219–221.
Published: 01 April 2021
... in the present of remembering the past. She questions what it means to read the archive “against the grain,” forswearing the metanarrative of a historical search for truth. 2 She gives the example of her own work in Saltwater Slavery , reading the marginalia in the numerical ledgers of the slave trade...
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Ghostly Outlines
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 225–228.
Published: 01 April 2021
... entangled with our past and continues to produce a scholarship of recovery and longing in the face of an “ever growing archive of black death.” 3 Three recent essays, Simon P. Newman’s “Freedom-Seeking Slaves in England and Scotland, 1700–1780,” Saidiya Hartman’s “The Dead Book Revisited...
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Shoreline Thinking: Alluvial Entanglements in Romance in Marseille
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 146–165.
Published: 01 April 2021
... bodies were turned into commodities that served as “abstract and empty vessel[s] vulnerable to the projection of others’ feelings, ideas, desires, and values.” 8 They were emptied of subjectivity and became instead screens for any impulse or image that white supremacy cast on them. Because slaves were...
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Slavery’s Archive and the Matter of Black Atlantic Lives
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 229–231.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Marisa J. Fuentes Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021 How do we redress the ongoing violence of slavery’s archive and its effects on our present? Thinking with three recent articles that address the history of slavery and the slave trade in the Atlantic world...
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“An Observance of Silence to the Events”: Formal Histories of the Haitian Revolution in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 58–70.
Published: 01 October 2019
...-Domingue was France’s most prosperous colony, its wealth founded principally on the cultivation of sugar. Subjugated under a brutal regime, slaves across the northern plains revolted in August 1791. At various points in the conflict, revolutionary forces engaged with French, Spanish, and English colonial...
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Fictions of Emancipation: Collaborations With and Against the Law
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 173–181.
Published: 01 March 2013
... which Enlightenment philosophy reigned, records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade show that the num ber o f people subjected annually to the M iddle Passage surged from 15,117 (in 1629) to 72,410 (in 1752).5This part of the story of emancipation has been brilliantly told by scholars including W alter D...
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Atlantic Architectures: Nineteenth-Century Cartography and Martin Delany's Blake
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English Language Notes (2014) 52 (2): 75–96.
Published: 01 September 2014
... the A tlantic slave trade. Ian Finseth2 Cartography is an im p ortan t heuristic fo r the study o f literature. It speaks directly to issues o f design. It is also a form fo r tracing cultural dissem ination into d iffe re n t rep resentational spaces. Literary cartographies can designate a subject's...
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Silence and Violence in the Archive of Slavery
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 222–224.
Published: 01 April 2021
... of this kind of speculation are found in Newman, “Freedom-Seeking Slaves,” 1140–41, 1145, 1156, 1158 . 9 Trouillot, Silencing the Past , xix . Works Cited Fuentes Marisa J. Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania...
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Conrad and Empire
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 71–74.
Published: 01 March 2005
... . . . guided by . . . an attem pted transition from slave morality to master morality (24). Ross updates the Nietzschean concepts on which he is here drawing by emphasizing that m odem slave morality looks toward imaginary compensations and that (per M arx), the ideology of slave morality is ultimately...
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Saamaka: Protest Mapping and Ecology in Suriname
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 97–119.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., Kultuur en Wetenschap , 1969 . https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/kom_001stri01_01/index.php . De Kom Anton . We Slaves of Suriname . Cambridge : Polity , 2022 . den Heijer Henk , Brommer Bea , and van Diessen J. R. Grote atlas van de West-Indische Compagnie . 2 vols...
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Huck's Rattlers and Narrative Sucker Bait in Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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English Language Notes (2002) 40 (2): 47–55.
Published: 01 December 2002
... the collection in the affecting story or tale told of a European family (477), a story included to re veal, in a persuasively subtle way, an instance of convincing and instructive evidence of the negro slave s in h e re n t duplicity.15 In this particular case, the duplicity is that of a slave living...
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Considering Epidemiology’s Need for Literary History
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English Language Notes (2023) 61 (1): 40–50.
Published: 01 April 2023
... sentimental narratives to their conclusion, but it does not result in Frado’s happiness or financial security. She meets a man named Samuel claiming to be a fugitive slave speaking on the abolitionist circuit, and she marries him: “Here were Frado’s first feelings of trust and repose on human arm. She...
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Contagious Revolution and Colonial Securitization
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English Language Notes (2016) 54 (1): 139–141.
Published: 01 March 2016
..., suggest a prehistory to such necropolitical zones in imperial slave colonies. By taking up a rhetoric of "contagion," the reviews convert imperial presence in the colonies into a therapeutic force and translate the globe into a unified body, one in w hich living and dead parts are woven together...
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Seeing the Light: Re-reading James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 43–57.
Published: 01 June 2005
... r worship, b u t continue on o u r knees with o ur hands held up, observing a strict silence till the sun is at a certain height, which I suppose to be about 10 o r 11 o-clock in E ngland.1 In the opening, then, to one of the earliest American slave narratives and accounts of an enslaved African s...
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