Greater Still in Death
Race, Martyrology, and the Reanimation of Juan Placido
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 3433786 |
|---|---|
| Autores | R J Boutelle (autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2018 |
| Volumen | 90 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 461-493 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | American Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117 |
| Editorial | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00029831-6994769 |
| OpenAlex | W2888459643 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 38 |
This article details how John Greenleaf Whittier accidentally assumed two different Cuban poets of color (Juan Francisco Manzano and Plácido) were one and the same person, resulting in an unwittingly combinatory sketch of "Juan Placido." The resulting syncretic personage in Whittier's "The Black Man" (1845) became a cause célèbre for abolitionists. I argue that to effectively persuade his white Northern audience, Whittier rewrote his source texts into the sentimental registers of moral suasion and culturally decontextualized Juan Placido, transforming the "Cuban martyr poet" into a transnational race man. In the essay's second half, I demonstrate how Martin R. Delany's Blake (1859, 1861-62) readapted Whittier's account to appeal to black radical abolitionists. By literarily resurrecting Juan Placido as an active revolutionary in the serial novel's plot, Delany articulated not only a sophisticated theory of diasporic collaboration but also meditated on the stakes of fighting for black liberation by repeatedly employing accounts of black martyrdom
Appeal · Art · Literature · Plot (graphics) · Political science · Race (biology) · Sketch · Sociology · White (mutation) · American and British Literature Analysis · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Sensational designs
The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925
Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba
Black Nationalism in the New World
Transamerican Literary Relations and the Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
The most perfect picture of Cuban slavery”
Slave and Citizen
Public Sentiments
To Tell a Free Story
From Serf to Self
No Taint of Compromise
Martin R. Delany
To Wake the Nations
The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
Scenes of Subjection
To Tell a Free Story
The Culture of Sentiment
Abolitionist Geographies
Blind Memory
Apocalyptic Sentimentalism
Slave Law and Claims-Making in Cuba
Writing to "Virtuous" and "Gentle" Readers
Slave and Citizen; The Negro in the Americas
Mulato entre negros'(y blancos)
The Black Atlantic
Sensational Designs
Within and without Raced Nations
White Slaves
Sugar is Made with Blood. The Conspiracy of La Escalera and the Conflict between Empires over Slavery in Cuba
In the Break
Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe
| Obras citantes distintas | 1 |
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| Citas por año | 1 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | recent |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |