The slumbering volcano : American slave ship revolts and the production of rebellious masculinity

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Label

The slumbering volcano : American slave ship revolts and the production of rebellious masculinity

Title remainder

American slave ship revolts and the production of rebellious masculinity

Statement of responsibility

Maggie Montesinos Sale

Creator

• Sale, Maggie Montesinos

Subject

• Masculinity -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• Masculinity -- United States -- History -- Sources
• National characteristics, American -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• Slave insurrections -- United States -- History -- Sources
• Slave insurrections -- United States -- Sources
• Slavery in literature
• Sources
• White supremacy movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
• History

Genre

• Sources
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"In The Slumbering Volcano, Maggie Montesinos Sale investigates depictions of nineteenth-century slave ship revolts to explore the notion of rebellion in formulations of United States national identity. Analyzing how such revolts inspired citizens to debate whether political theory directed at free men could be extended toward blacks, Sale compares the reception of fictionalized versions of ship revolts published in the 1850s - Benito Cereno by Herman Melville and The Heroic Slave by Frederick Douglass - with the previous decade's public accounts of actual rebellions by enslaved people on the ships Amistad and Creole." "This comparison of narrative response with written public reaction to the actual revolts allows Sale to investigate the precise manner in which public opinion regarding definitions of liberty evolved over this crucial period of time between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Mapping the ways in which unequally empowered groups claimed and transformed statements associated with the discourse of national identity, Sale succeeds in recovering a historically informed sense of the discursive and activist options available to people of another era." "In its demonstration of how the United States has been uniquely shaped by its dual status as both an imperial and a postcolonial power, this study on the discourse of natural rights and national identity in the pre-Civil War United States will interest students and scholars of American studies, African American studies, gender studies, and American history and literature."--Jacket

Member of

• New Americanists

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.896/073

Index

index present

LC call number

E447

LC item number

.S25 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

New Americanists