Where Is All My Relation?

Zusatztext Though most of the contributors are professors of English or art history and write in an academic style! the collection offers such a broad range of views that it will be of interest in many disciplines ... Summing up: Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Michael A. Chaney is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College and the author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Identity in Antebellum Narrative (2008). Klappentext Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. Zusammenfassung Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Auteur

Michael A. Chaney is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College and the author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Identity in Antebellum Narrative (2008).

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Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War.

Contenu

• List of Illustrations

• Introduction

• Chapter 1: 'Great and Noble Jar': David Drake, George Moses Horton, and the Possibilities of Poetry Faith Barrett

• Chapter 2: A Letter to David Drake from a Friend and a Relation Evie Shockley

• Chapter 3: Shifted Perspectives on Dave: Implications of Archaeological Excavation at the Pottersville Kiln Site George Calfas

• Chapter 4: Inscribing Economic Desire: Dave the Potter's Money Inscriptions Xiomara Santamarina

• Chapter 5: Signifying Jars, Resonating Like a Banjar: Influence, Politics, and Poetics in Dave's Pottery Babatunde Lawal

• Chapter 6: The Fourth of July is Surely Come Elisa Edwards

• Chapter 7: The Concatenate Poetics of Slavery and the Articulate Material of Dave the Potter Michael A. Chaney

• Chapter 8: Writing in Clay: The Materiality of Dave's Poetry Ethan W. Lasser

• Chapter 9: 1857: Dave the Potter's August Pots, Sexual Imagery, and Dred Scott P. Gabrielle Foreman

• Chapter 10: An Easter Prayer, 1859 Carla L. Peterson

• Chapter 11: Beneath Notice: A Social Philology of the Poetry of Dave the Potter Jon Woodson

• Chapter 12: Accident Before Love, on "horses, mules, and hogs -" Sharon P. Holland

• Chapter 13: Potter's Field: Trauma and Representation in the Art of David Drake Michael Bramwell

• Chapter 14: Darion McCloud as Dave the Potter: The Model and the Artist's Mission Dianne Johnson

• Chapter 15: 'Who Are The Other Potters? What Are Their Names?': Dave the Potter, Theaster Gates, and the Aesthetics of Power in African American Art and Craft Shelly Jarenski