Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity

Name: Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
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ISBN: 9780807846339

ISBN-10: 0807846333

ISBN-13: 9780807846339

Edition: 1997

Authors: Robert S. Levine

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The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity. He explores their debates over issues like abolitionism, emigration, and nationalism, illuminating each man's influence on the other's political vision. He also examines Delany and Douglass's debates in relation to their own writings and to the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Though each saw himself as the single best representative of his race, Douglass has been accorded that role by…

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List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 5/20/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Robert S. Levine is professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent book is Dislocating Race and Nation: Episodes in Nineteenth-Century American Literary Nationalism.



Acknowledgments


Introduction Representative Men



Western Tour for the North Star: Debating Black Elevation



A Nation Within a Nation: Debating Uncle Tom's Cabin and Black Emigration



Slaves of Appetite Temperate Revolutionism in Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom



Heap of Witness: The African American Presence in Stowe's Dred



The Redemption of His Race Creating Pan-African Community in Delany's Blake


Epilogue True Patriotism/ True Stability


Notes


Index