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RADICAL RETICENCE: QUIETNESS, VISION, AND RESISTANCE IN CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS OF SLAVERY
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RADICAL RETICENCE: QUIETNESS, VISION, AND RESISTANCE IN CONTEMPORARY REPRESENTATIONS OF SLAVERY.
Creator
McGeary, Stephen A., Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika, Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
Throughout the 21st century, some artists, athletes, and politicians began to use their platforms to speak out against the issues of systemic racism and police brutality that continue to affect black Americans to this day. While this outpouring of support for the black community has helped move the needle in terms of equity and inclusion initiatives, critics have often labeled these figures and movements too public or loud, conflating the concepts of talking and loudness with resistance to...
Show moreThroughout the 21st century, some artists, athletes, and politicians began to use their platforms to speak out against the issues of systemic racism and police brutality that continue to affect black Americans to this day. While this outpouring of support for the black community has helped move the needle in terms of equity and inclusion initiatives, critics have often labeled these figures and movements too public or loud, conflating the concepts of talking and loudness with resistance to the status quo. Yet, in an era when “silence is not an option” and “quietness is complicity,” African American authors and artists have taken a subtle and quiet approach to depicting the lives of enslaved men and women. More specifically, novels, films, and art from the past two decades portray resistance as not only a public and physical phenomenon, but a mental and ideological one. This dissertation project comes at the intersection of African American literary, religious, and historical studies to argue that quiet and internal acts, such as surrender, memory, and visions, throughout contemporary representations of slavery provide an effective form of resistance to white hegemonic authority, ideology, and values. It asks readers to look beyond the public and the loud, to think about resistance that is not merely physical, to consider the possibilities present in reticence.
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Date Issued
2022
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013935
Subject Headings
African-American studies, Slave narratives, American literature--African American authors
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Resisting The “Slave Religion”: Understanding “Christianity Proper” Through The Slave Narratives Of Frederick Douglass And Harriet Jacobs
Title
Resisting The “Slave Religion”: Understanding “Christianity Proper” Through The Slave Narratives Of Frederick Douglass And Harriet Jacobs.
Creator
Casseus, Aniska, Fox, Regis M., Florida Atlantic University, Department of English, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
This thesis seeks to explore the misconception that arises when viewing Christianity as the source of enslavement or White supremacy. Focusing specifically on the nineteenth-century Antebellum era, This Thesis investigates the primary texts of Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself—two prominent Christians of their time—to juxtapose the teachings and practices of their...
Show moreThis thesis seeks to explore the misconception that arises when viewing Christianity as the source of enslavement or White supremacy. Focusing specifically on the nineteenth-century Antebellum era, This Thesis investigates the primary texts of Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself—two prominent Christians of their time—to juxtapose the teachings and practices of their captors with the actual Biblical text. This thesis seeks to explore and complicate the common narrative that has falsely implicated Christianity as a tool of oppression.
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Date Issued
2024
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014442
Subject Headings
Slave narratives, Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895, Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897, Christianity
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Provoking Southern Christianity: Baptists, Methodists, Schisms and Slavery
Title
Provoking Southern Christianity: Baptists, Methodists, Schisms and Slavery.
Creator
Kelly, Denario, Furman, Andrew, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of English
Abstract/Description
This thesis examines the schisms in the antebellum Baptist and Methodist Churches regarding slavery. It was these internal ruptures in both denominations that helped influence life in the slave community. The slave narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs reveal the impact the schisms had on master-slave relations and slave religious instruction. Moreover, the internal rupture in both denominations over the South‟s peculiar institution was...
Show moreThis thesis examines the schisms in the antebellum Baptist and Methodist Churches regarding slavery. It was these internal ruptures in both denominations that helped influence life in the slave community. The slave narratives of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs reveal the impact the schisms had on master-slave relations and slave religious instruction. Moreover, the internal rupture in both denominations over the South‟s peculiar institution was instrumental in spawning a pro-slavery Christianity. This pro-slavery Christianity proved crucial in extending and strengthening white hegemony.
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Date Issued
2018
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013079
Subject Headings
Slavery and the church--Baptists., Slavery and the church--Methodist Church., Slave narratives., Bibb, Henry, 1815-1854, Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884, Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895., Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897.
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