Slavery, Surveillance and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019266901X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9780192669018
• Author: Kelly Ross

Slavery, Surveillance, and Genre in Antebellum United States Literature argues for the existence of deep, often unexamined, interconnections between genre and race by tracing how surveillance migrates from the literature of slavery to crime, gothic, and detective fiction. Attending to the long history of surveillance and policing of African Americans, the book challenges the traditional conception of surveillance as a top-down enterprise, equally addressing the tactics of sousveillance (watching from below) that enslaved people and their allies used to resist, escape, or merely survive racial subjugation.

Table contents:

1 Fugitive Slave Narratives as a Literature of Sousveillance

2 Inconspicuous and Conspicuous Detection in Ball and Poe

3 White Oversight in The Confessions of Nat Turner, Benito Cereno, and The Heroic Slave

4 Speculation Fiction: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The Bondwoman’s Narrative

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