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oapen-20.500.12657-535472022-08-22T09:30:09Z Fugitive Borders Sawallisch, Nele Black Canada 19th Century Slave Narrative Life Writing Borders Literary History Literature America Cultural History American Studies Migration Literary Studies bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFN Migration, immigration & emigration Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation. 2022-03-23T09:55:50Z 2022-03-23T09:55:50Z 2018 book ONIX_20220323_9783839445020_8 9783839445020 9783837645026 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53547 eng American Culture Studies application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9783839445020.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag 10.14361/transcript.9783839445020 10.14361/transcript.9783839445020 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839445020 9783837645026 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) transcript Verlag 13 218 Bielefeld [grantnumber unknown] Knowledge Unlatched open access
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