R J Boutelle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1166871 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | R J Boutelle |
| NOMBRES | R J |
| APELLIDO | Boutelle |
| FIRMA | BOUTELLE R J |
| AFILIACIONES | Vanderbilt University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 3 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Greater Still in Death
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…
Manifest Diaspora
This essay reads the published proceedings of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Committee's 1872 meeting in New York, Slavery in Cuba , as a dense node of postbellum politics for black citizens in the United States. Recently liberated themselves, these individuals gathered to petition the federal government to support Cuba's anticolonial revolution and thereby end Cuban slavery. I locate this meeting in a broader, public debate over USAmerican foreign polic…
The most perfect picture of Cuban slavery”
This article reexamines Richard Robert Madden's English language translation of Juan Francisco Manzano's slave testimony and its publication as part of Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba (1840) in order to assess how our critical investment in the slave narrative as a generic form has restricted the scope of our readings. By looking at the publication history and confused, ambivalent reception of the antislavery tract in Great Britain, I argu…
Greater Still in Death
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…
The most perfect picture of Cuban slavery”
This article reexamines Richard Robert Madden's English language translation of Juan Francisco Manzano's slave testimony and its publication as part of Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba (1840) in order to assess how our critical investment in the slave narrative as a generic form has restricted the scope of our readings. By looking at the publication history and confused, ambivalent reception of the antislavery tract in Great Britain, I argu…
The most perfect picture of Cuban slavery”
This article reexamines Richard Robert Madden's English language translation of Juan Francisco Manzano's slave testimony and its publication as part of Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba (1840) in order to assess how our critical investment in the slave narrative as a generic form has restricted the scope of our readings. By looking at the publication history and confused, ambivalent reception of the antislavery tract in Great Britain, I argu…
Manifest Diaspora
This essay reads the published proceedings of the Cuban Anti-Slavery Committee's 1872 meeting in New York, Slavery in Cuba , as a dense node of postbellum politics for black citizens in the United States. Recently liberated themselves, these individuals gathered to petition the federal government to support Cuba's anticolonial revolution and thereby end Cuban slavery. I locate this meeting in a broader, public debate over USAmerican foreign polic…
Greater Still in Death
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…
Art (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Latin American and Latino Studies (3 obras) · Literature (3 obras) · Law (2 obras) · Narrative (2 obras) · Political science (2 obras) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 obras) · Sociology (2 obras) · Ambivalence (1 obras)