Search Results - "Frederick Douglass"

Sightations in Black: Ekphrasis and the African American Ophthalmic Text by Turner, Christopher

“…This study investigates the role of ekphrasis—the verbal representation of visual representation—in the writing of Frederick Douglass, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker with an emphasis on photography and argues for a tradition of this aesthetic in what I term the African American ophthalmic text. …”
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John Brown's spirit: the abolitionist aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom in early antilynching protest literature by Trodd, Zoe

“…Between the 1880s and the 1920s, black and white writers imagined lynching's ritual violence as a crucifixion and drew upon the John Brown aesthetic of emancipatory martyrdom, including Frederick Douglass, Stephen Graham, James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, black Baptist ministers, and black educators and journalists. …”
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Jazz talks: representations & self-representations of African American music and its musicians from bebop to free jazz by Mazman, Alper

“…The introduction briefly sketches the context of earlier African American writings on music, from Frederick Douglass through the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. …”
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"Dusky powder magazines": the Creole revolt (1841) in nineteenth century American literature by Bernier, Celeste-Marie

“…This thesis examines literary and historical accounts of the Creole slave ship revolt (1841) by Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, Lydia Maria Child and Pauline E. …”
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“It is time for the slaves to speak:” transatlantic abolitionism and African American activism in Britain 1835-1895 by Murray, Hannah-Rose

“…To share their testimony of slavery, black men and women such as Moses Roper, Frederick Douglass, William and Ellen Craft, Henry ‘Box’ Brown, J. …”
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