An edition of The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (2019)
The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture
By Grégory Pierrot
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Publish Date
May 01, 2019
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Language
eng
Pages
274
Description:
"The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture explores a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915, a symbolic date marking one end of a regularly renewed representational tradition. In its long ranging analysis, Black Avengers offers the tools to analyze a profusion of heroes in popular imagination of the present day"--