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Criminal genius in African American and US literature, 1793-1845
- Title
- Criminal genius in African American and US literature, 1793-1845 / Erin Forbes.
- Author
- Forbes, Erin, 1980-
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
- ©2024
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Details
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : "nourished in vice" -- Zombies of civic virtue -- The convict's corpus -- Outlaw humanism -- The Southampton insurgency -- Fugitive aesthetics -- Conclusion : new forms of crime.
- Call Number
- Sc E 24-517
- ISBN
- 9781421443751
- 1421443759
- 9781421443768
- 1421443767
- LCCN
- 2023010420
- OCLC
- 1394114458
- Author
- Forbes, Erin, 1980- author.
- Title
- Criminal genius in African American and US literature, 1793-1845 / Erin Forbes.
- Publisher
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
- Copyright Date
- ©2024
- Description
- ix, 236 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Summary
- "An investigation on how the development of conceptions of genius relate to struggles over enslavement and carceral practices"-- Provided by publisher."In Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature, 1793-1845, Erin Forbes uncovers a model of racialized, collective agency in American literature and culture. Identifying creative genius in the figure of the convict, the zombie, the outlaw, the insurgent, and the fugitive, Forbes deepens our understanding of the historical relationship between criminality and Blackness and reestablishes the importance of the aestetic in early African American literature" -- Page 4 of cover.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1783-1899
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 24-517