Christopher Freeburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 283575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Freeburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Freeburg |
| SIGNATURE | FREEBURG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Blue Period
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
Race is central to American history. It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding how race has been defined and deployed at every stage of the nation's history. Offering a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of race, The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. Written…
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
Counterlife
In Counterlife Christopher Freeburg poses a question to contemporary studies of slavery and its aftereffects: what if freedom, agency, and domination weren't the overarching terms used for thinking about Black life? In pursuit of this question, Freeburg submits that current scholarship is too preoccupied with demonstrating enslaved Africans' acts of political resistance, and instead he considers Black social life beyond such concepts. He examines…
James Baldwin and theUnhistoric Life of Race
In his essays, James Baldwin emphasizes that white supremacy is a historical trap, which legally and socially debases both whites and blacks. Baldwin claims, however, that if whites recognize it, they can release themselves. In reconsidering Baldwin as a spokesperson of the 1960s civil rights era, it is important to focus on the concept of being trapped in history, which for Baldwin is not just about transforming laws but making manifest a "chang…
Melville and the Idea of Blackness
Darkening the Past
Pierre, Social Reform, and the Agony of Moral Perfection”
Freedom's Empire
Book Review| September 01 2009 Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940; The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade Christopher C. Freeburg Christopher C. Freeburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 613–615. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permis…
Imagining Grace
Book Review| September 01 2002 Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition By Kimberly Rae Connor. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xi, 311 pp.$34.95. Christopher C. Freeburg Christopher C. Freeburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 638–640. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-638 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
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Imagining Grace
Book Review| September 01 2002 Imagining Grace: Liberating Theologies in the Slave Narrative Tradition By Kimberly Rae Connor. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2000. xi, 311 pp.$34.95. Christopher C. Freeburg Christopher C. Freeburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 638–640. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-3-638 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
Pierre, Social Reform, and the Agony of Moral Perfection”
Freedom's Empire
Book Review| September 01 2009 Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640–1940; The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade Christopher C. Freeburg Christopher C. Freeburg Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 613–615. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-028 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permis…
Melville and the Idea of Blackness
Darkening the Past
James Baldwin and theUnhistoric Life of Race
In his essays, James Baldwin emphasizes that white supremacy is a historical trap, which legally and socially debases both whites and blacks. Baldwin claims, however, that if whites recognize it, they can release themselves. In reconsidering Baldwin as a spokesperson of the 1960s civil rights era, it is important to focus on the concept of being trapped in history, which for Baldwin is not just about transforming laws but making manifest a "chang…
Counterlife
In Counterlife Christopher Freeburg poses a question to contemporary studies of slavery and its aftereffects: what if freedom, agency, and domination weren't the overarching terms used for thinking about Black life? In pursuit of this question, Freeburg submits that current scholarship is too preoccupied with demonstrating enslaved Africans' acts of political resistance, and instead he considers Black social life beyond such concepts. He examines…
The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature
African American literature has changed in startling ways since the end of the Black Arts Era. The last five decades have generated new paradigms of racial formation and novel patterns of cultural production, circulation, and reception. This volume takes up the challenge of mapping the varied and changing field of contemporary African American writing. Balancing the demands of historical and political context with attention to aesthetic innovatio…
The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature
Race is central to American history. It is impossible to understand the United States without understanding how race has been defined and deployed at every stage of the nation's history. Offering a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the history of race, The Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature shows how this history has been represented in literature, and how those representations have influenced American culture. Written…
The Blue Period
History (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Race, History, and American Society (5 works) · Literature (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · American and British Literature Analysis (3 works)