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Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass takes its bearings from the Maryland-born former slave Frederick Douglass’s 1845 sojourn in Ireland and Britain—a voyage that is understood in editors Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins’ collection as paradigmatic of the crossings between American, African American, and Irish historical experience and culture with which the collection as a whole is concerned. In crossing the Atlantic, Douglass also completed his journey from slavery to freedom, and from political and cultural marginality into subjective and creative autonomy. Atlantic Crossings traces the stages of that journey in chapters on literature, archaeology, and spatial culture that consider both roots and routes—landscapes of New World slavery, subordination, and state-sponsored surveillance, and narratives of resistance, liberation, and intercultural exchange generated by transatlantic connectivities and the transnational transfer of ideas.
Contributors
Lee M. Jenkins, Mark P. Leone, Katie Ahern, Miranda Corcoran, Ann Coughlan, Kathryn H. Deeley, Adam Fracchia, Mary Furlong Minkoff, Tracy H. Jenkins, Dan O’Brien, Eoin O’Callaghan, Elizabeth Pruitt, Benjamin A. Skolnik and Stefan Woehlke
Contributors
Lee M. Jenkins, Mark P. Leone, Katie Ahern, Miranda Corcoran, Ann Coughlan, Kathryn H. Deeley, Adam Fracchia, Mary Furlong Minkoff, Tracy H. Jenkins, Dan O’Brien, Eoin O’Callaghan, Elizabeth Pruitt, Benjamin A. Skolnik and Stefan Woehlke
Price: $122.00
Pages: 256
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Cross/Cultures
Publication Date:
23 March 2017
ISBN: 9789004342903
Format: Hardcover
"[...] all of the essays in the volume provide ideas for interpreting the past in new and revealing ways. Mark Leone, his coeditor, Lee Jenkins, and their authors have produced an important model for forging crossdisciplinary conversations and they accomplished this through an impressively
collaborative approach, involving senior scholars, advanced graduate students, two disciplines, and two institutions."
- Julia A. King (St. Mary’s College of Maryland), Historical Archeology 52, 2018, p. 506–508.
- Julia A. King (St. Mary’s College of Maryland), Historical Archeology 52, 2018, p. 506–508.
MARK P. LEONE has taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1976, and is the author of books on historical archaeology. He is also the co-editor, with Jocelyn Knauf, of a recent book on critical historical archaeology.
LEE M. JENKINS is a professor in the School of English, University College Cork, is the author of books on Wallace Stevens, Caribbean poetry, and D.H. Lawrence, and has co-edited three collections (with Alex Davis) on literary modernism.
LEE M. JENKINS is a professor in the School of English, University College Cork, is the author of books on Wallace Stevens, Caribbean poetry, and D.H. Lawrence, and has co-edited three collections (with Alex Davis) on literary modernism.