Unwillingness and Imagination in Frederick Douglass'sThe Heroic Slave
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6401451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathan Bennett (0000-0002-4463-385X, corresponding author), Nolan Bennett |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-303 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0034670519000020 |
| OpenAlex | W2933212767 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 41 |
Frederick Douglass testified often to his experiences and the injustice of slavery. Yet how did he explain those who were unmoved, and what did he envision as compelling them to act? I turn toThe Heroic Slaveto investigate Douglass on white unwillingness. A fictional account of the factual mutiny of the enslaved Madison Washington in 1841, Douglass's novella narrates Washington's emancipation through the perspectives of a white northerner and southerner who waver in response to testimony when confronted by the spaces and scripts of white society. Although Douglass suggests that friendship may encourage whites, I find in the story's contents as well as its publication a heroic imagination in which black resistance is inevitable and natural, independent of white alliance, opposition, and judgment itself. This story was for Douglass another means of motivating whites, and for us illustrative of how racial justice demands not only evidence but imagination
Alliance · Art · Economic Justice · Friendship · Injustice · Literature · Novella · Opposition (politics · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Literature: history, themes, analysis · Race, History, and American Society
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The Evidence of Things Not Said
The Slave's Cause
Race and the Politics of Solidarity
The Making of Black Lives Matter
Freedom as Marronage
Awakening to Race
Stories of Peoplehood
The Black Hearts of Men
Dark Matters
The Strangers Book
Talking to Strangers
The Racial Contract
The Epistemology of Resistance
Standpoint Theory as a Methodology for the Study of Power Relations
The Black Hearts of Men
Justice Accused
The Creole Mutiny
Arms Like Polished Iron
The Heroic Slave
The Slumbering Volcano
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To Narrate and Denounce
Dismantling whiteness
Nomos e narração
The Slumbering Volcano
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |