Atlantic Crossing in the Wake of Frederick Douglass: Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture

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In Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass, edited by Mark P. Leone and Lee M. Jenkins, twelve chapters on archaeology, literature, and spatial culture explore crossings between American, African American, and Irish historical experience and culture. Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass: Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture Copyright Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures INTRODUCTION: Frederick Douglass and the Transatlantic Classroom PART I: ROOTS AND ROUTES: SITES OF SLAVERY, PASSAGES TO FREEDOM CHAPTER ONE: Transatlantic Roots: Cultural Uses of Plants at the Wye House Plantation CHAPTER TWO: Montpelier: The Making of an African-American Landscapes CHAPTER THREE: Between Freedom and Slavery: Understanding the Material Landscapes of Labour in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore and Texas, Maryland CHAPTER FOUR: Frederick Douglass, Arthur O’Connor, and the Columbian Orator PART II: TRANSATLANTIC COMPARATIVES CHAPTER FIVE: Domestic Labour in Black and Green: Deciphering the Sensory Experiences of African-American and Irish Domestics Working in Alexandria, Virginia CHAPTER SIX: “A nice Catholic girl ruined by a dirty foreigner”: Foreign and Domestic Censorship in Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy CHAPTER SEVEN: Negative Space and Narrative Elision in Twentieth-Century Soviet and American Fiction: Towards a Transnational Aesthetic of Paranoid Representation PART III: CREATING IDENTI TI ES CHAPTER EIGHT: Allies and Intersections: Douglass, Archaeology, and the Knitting Together of Progressive Movements CHAPTER NINE: William Faulkner, Whiteness, and the Transnational Short Story CHAPTER TEN: Who’s Who and How Can We Tell?: The Archaeology of Group Identity and Demonstrating Belonging in Nineteenth-Century African-American Annapolis CHAPTER ELEVEN: “I read them, over and over again, with an interest that was ever increasing”: Language and Education in Frederick Douglass and Anzia Yezierska CODA An Eagle on Their Buttons: Frederick Douglass, Archaeology, and Ideology Notes on the Contributors and Editors Index