Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass: Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

INTRODUCTION: Frederick Douglass and the Transatlantic Classroom

PART I: ROOTS AND ROUTES: SITES OF SLAVERY, PASSAGES TO FREEDOM

CHAPTER ONE: Transatlantic Roots: Cultural Uses of Plants at the Wye House Plantation

CHAPTER TWO: Montpelier: The Making of an African-American Landscapes

CHAPTER THREE: Between Freedom and Slavery: Understanding the Material Landscapes of Labour in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore and Texas, Maryland

CHAPTER FOUR: Frederick Douglass, Arthur O’Connor, and the Columbian Orator

PART II: TRANSATLANTIC COMPARATIVES

CHAPTER FIVE: Domestic Labour in Black and Green: Deciphering the Sensory Experiences of African-American and Irish Domestics Working in Alexandria, Virginia

CHAPTER SIX: “A nice Catholic girl ruined by a dirty foreigner”: Foreign and Domestic Censorship in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy

CHAPTER SEVEN: Negative Space and Narrative Elision in Twentieth-Century Soviet and American Fiction: Towards a Transnational Aesthetic of Paranoid Representation

PART III: CREATING IDENTI TI ES

CHAPTER EIGHT: Allies and Intersections: Douglass, Archaeology, and the Knitting Together of Progressive Movements

CHAPTER NINE: William Faulkner, Whiteness, and the Transnational Short Story

CHAPTER TEN: Who’s Who and How Can We Tell?: The Archaeology of Group Identity and Demonstrating Belonging in Nineteenth-Century African-American Annapolis

CHAPTER ELEVEN: “I read them, over and over again, with an interest that was ever increasing”: Language and Education in Frederick Douglass and Anzia Yezierska

CODA

An Eagle on Their Buttons: Frederick Douglass, Archaeology, and Ideology

Notes on the Contributors and Editors

Index