Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2005

Black Cosmopolitanism

Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

In the series Rethinking the Americas

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812292121

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About this book

Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, and government documents including texts by Frederick Douglass and freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo explicates the growing interrelatedness of people of African descent through the Americas in the nineteenth century.

Author / Editor information

Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

Reviews

"Black Cosmopolitanism presents a strong, innovative case for looking back in order to look forward. . . .Nwankwo's book highlights its relevance to a varied cross section of disciplines that include, but are not limited to, African-American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Afro-Hispanic Literature, and History of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries."—Journal of Haitian Studies

"Black Cosmopolitanism seeks to tell a story about the complex hemispheric context in which multiple public discourses of blackness emerged in the work of black intellectuals, writing and publishing throughout a nineteenth century shaped by the cataclysmic impact of the Haitian revolution . . . [The book reflects] the richness of new pathways in a hemispheric American studies, moving outward to explore philosophies of race and histories of racial identity that traveled back and forth between colonial and imperial worlds."—American Literature

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE: The Making of a Race (Man)
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Chapter 1. The View from Above: Plácido Through the Eyes of the Cuban Colonial Government and White Abolitionists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Chapter 2. The View from Next Door: Plácido Through the Eyes of U.S. Black Abolitionists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
PART TWO: Both (Race) and (Nation)?
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Chapter 3. On Being Black and Cuban: Race, Nation, and Romanticism in the Poetry of Plácido Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 4. “We Intend to Stay Here”: The International Shadows in Frederick Douglass’s Representations of African American Community Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
Chapter 5. “More a Haitian Than an American”: Frederick Douglass and the Black World Beyond the United States Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
PART THREE: Negating Nation, Rejecting Race
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Chapter 6. A Slave’s Cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, and the Geography of Identity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 7. Disidentification as Identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Flight from Blackness Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Keywords: Literature; African-American Studies; African Studies; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies; American History; American Studies

eBook

Published: March 21, 2014
ISBN: 9780812292121