The Slave's Rebellion: Literature, History, Orature

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index 201 twentieth-century African American fiction, 69–71, 74, 82–83 Blake (Delany), 2, 25, 26, 27, 28–29, 35– 46; depiction of the slave rebel’s journeys, 37–38; early black trans-nationalism in the novel, 43–45; effect of incipient class divisions on racial solidarity, 45–46; lumbering plot, 35–37; narrative inconsistencies , 41; overcoming national political and geographical obstacles to insurrection, 38–46; radical abolitionist politics, 36; relationship to antebellum African American fiction of slave rebellion, 41–43 Bontemps, Arna, 1, 6, 66–83 Brown, William Wells, 2, 25, 26, 28, 35, 46, 48 Buck-Morss, Susan, 15, 175 Butler, Judith, 20–21. See also Agency and subordination Carpenter, Alejo, 3, 7, 104–120, 174 Césaire, Aimé, 84–85 Chesnutt, Charles, 2, 50–65 Child, Lydia Maria, 24–25 Clotel (Brown), 2, 25, 26, 28, 35, 46, 48 The Confessions of Nat Turner (Gray), 25, 26, 30–35; conflicted narrator, 32–33; critical questions about the book’s veracity, 32; as eclectic slave narrative, 30–32; guilt and exoneration, 33–35 Davis, Angela, 161 Delany, Martin, 2, 25, 26, 27, 28–29, 35–46 Dessa Rose (Williams), 5, 157–171; as allegory of reading, 169–171; as allegory of the writing of women’s participation in African American literary criticism and stories of slave rebellion, 2, 6, 7, 22–23, 35–37, 46–49, 67–71, 166–171 Agency and subordination, 20–21 Amistad (the movie), 173–174 Amistad rebellion, 172–174 Andrews, William L., 7, 32, 48–49 Awf, Bolá1lé, 122, 124–125, 134–135, 147–149, 156 Babalqlá, Adébóyè, 124–125, 127 Barber, Karin, 122, 125 Benjamin, Walter, 1, 174 Bhabha, Homi, 99 The Black Jacobins ( James), 3, 6, 7, 84– 103, 174; Boukman, 95–96; historical action, 94–95, 99; historical actors, 93; the historical hero and the tragic hero, 100–101; history and figuration, 91– 92, 93, 100–102; impact of, 85–86; the “laws” and “proverbs” of history, 92–100; realistic historicism, 87–90; Toussaint L’Overture, 95, 96–100, 102–103 Black Thunder (Bontemps), 3, 6, 66–83, 174; author’s metaphors of history’s telos, 74; commenting on black literary heroes and American racialism, 68; comparing nineteenth-century historical slave rebels and twentieth-century working classes, 66–67, 71–74, 78–79; contesting the depiction of slavery in early twentiethcentury African American fiction, 68– 69; depiction of folk culture and revolutionary nationalism, 75–78; influence on Richard Wright’s “Blueprint for Negro Writing,” 70–71; and the reshaping of Adeeko, Slave's Rebelion 5/5/05 3:56 PM Page 201 Dessa Rose (Williams) (continued) the history of slave rebellions, 159–162, 168–169; complex interplay of narrative voices, 5; critique of bloodless textuality in literary criticism, 166–171; depiction of the slaves’ will to rebel, 162–163; the female slave rebel, 5; narrative location of rebellion in the American South, 163– 166; position in post–civil rights literature , 158 Douglass, Frederick, 2, 25, 27, 28, 46, 77; Madison Washington, 2, 35, 48; the slave’s “counter-violence,” 15–16, 18 Áfún3etán Aníwúrà (Akínwùmí), 4, 145–156; depiction of political climate in oríkì praise poetry, 153–154; depiction of slavery in the play, 149–151; Efún3etán in conflict with male chiefs, 152–154; Efún3et án in history, 147–149; Efún3etán’s high-handedness, 146–147; Efún3etán’s slaves rebel against her, 152–156; male high chiefs hijack the slaves’ rebellion, 155; record-breaking theatrical performance , 146; the slaves’ rebellion lost to “history” and “literature,” 156 Fálétí, Adébáyk, 4, 7, 123, 135–144 Foley, Barbara, 79 Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 123; The Signifying Monkey, 7, 166–167; “Wonders of the African World,” 123 Genovese, Eugene, 22, 39 Gilroy, Paul, 10, 38; The Black Atlantic, 9–12; on the slaves’ counter-violence, 15–17 Gray, Thomas, 25, 26, 30–35 Guha, Ranajit, 9, 163 Haiti, 3; in modern history and literature, 84–120; War of Independence, 3, 85, 91, 92 Hegel, G. W. F., 20; Lordship and Bondage, 13–15, 175–176 The Heroic Slave (Douglass), 2, 25, 27, 28, 46 Historical normativity, 10, 21 Irele, Abiola, 122 Ì3klá, Akínwùmí, 4, 145–156 Jacobs, Harriet: depiction of the Nat Turner insurrection in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, 23–25; exchange with Lydia Maria Child, 24–25 James, C. L. R., 3...