Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic Imagination

Characters of Blood: Black Heroism in the Transatlantic ImaginationAcross the centuries, the acts and arts of black heroism have inspired a provocative, experimental, and self reflexive intellectual, political, and aesthetic tradition. In Characters of Blood, Celeste Marie Bernier illuminates the ways in which six iconic men and womenToussaint Louverture, Nathaniel Turner, Sengbe Pieh, Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubmanchallenged the dominant conceptualizations of their histories and played a key

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and the son of immigrant parents: people who came to this country with very little and went very far—and whose vision of the American dream probably never included their son sliding off an oiled-up naked woman in a raunchy Ryan Reynolds movie…or getting a phone call from Air Force One as Kal flew with the country’s first Black president

a literary and philosophical movement inaugurated in the 1930s by a group of Blacks studying in Paris

a man appearing to be of the highest moral fiber who chose to travel with his wife and young daughter rather than carouse with loose women

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also formerly enslaved

He answered with a chuckle that he was not: that he was barely thirty years old