Contributor
Sundquist, Eric J.
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Descriptionvi, 295 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction / Eric J. Sundquist. - "Ironic tenacity": Frederick Douglass's seizure of the dialectic / Sterling Stuckey. - From Wheatley to Douglass: the politics of displacement / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Writing freely? Frederick Douglass and the constraints of racialized writing / Wilson J. Moses. - Faith, doubt, and apostasy: evidence of things unseen in Frederick Douglass's Narrative / Donald B. Gibson. - Franklinian Douglass: the Afro-American as representative man / Rafia Zafar. - Reading slavery: the anxiety of ethnicity in Douglass's Narrative / David Van Leer. - The punishment of Esther: Frederick Douglass and the construction of the feminine / Jenny Franchot. - Race, violence, and manhood: the masculine ideal in Frederick Douglass's "The heroic slave" / Richard Yarborough. - "We hold these truths to be self-evident": the rhetoric of Frederick Douglass's journalism / Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Carla A. Peterson. - The Frederick Douglass-Gerrit Smith friendship and political abolitionism in the 1850s / John R. McKivigan. - The shadow of slavery: Frederick Douglass, the savage south, and the next generation / Wayne Mixon. - Frederick Douglass's Life and Times: Progressive rhetoric and the problem of constituency / Kenneth W. Warren. - Images of Frederick Douglass in the Afro-American mind: the recent black freedom struggle / Waldo E. Martin, Jr.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-288) and index.
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