"His rich volume takes up the complex and strategic discourses that
circulated around the truth of slave testimony....actively
engaging."
--"American Literature"
Even the most cursory review of black literary production during
the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the
issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and
liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness"
to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic
discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to
"tell the truth" about slavery?
Impossible Witnesses explores these questions through a study of
fiction, poetry, essays, and slave narratives from the abolitionist
era. Linking the racialized discourses of slavery and Romanticism,
it boldly calls for a reconfiguration of U.S. and British
Romanticism that places slavery at its center.
Impossible Witnesses addresses some of the major literary
figures and representations of slavery in light of discourses on
natural rights and law, offers an account of Foucauldian discourse
analysis as it applies to the problem of "bearing witness," and
analyzes specific narratives such as "Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass," and "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of
Olaudah Equiano."
A work of great depth and originality, Impossible Witnesses
renders traditional interpretations of Romanticism impossible and
places Dwight A. McBride at the forefront of studies in race and
literature.
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