The Many Resurrections of Henry Box Brown

Awards:   Commended for Honorable Mention for the Sharon Harris Book Award, granted by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute 2023 (United States)
Author:   Martha Cutter
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:  

9780812254051


Pages:   368
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Format:   Hardback
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  • Commended for Honorable Mention for the Sharon Harris Book Award, granted by the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute 2023 (United States)

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Author:   Martha Cutter
Publisher:   University of Pennsylvania Press
Imprint:   University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN:  

9780812254051


ISBN 10:   0812254058
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   15 November 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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"""[A] fascinating and meticulously researched study....Cutter’s refusal to limit the book to biography, cultural history, or theorization of Brown’s performances allows her to fill gaps in historical scholarship while challenging the boundaries Brown’s lifespan might otherwise place on his innovation. Balancing readability and theoretical engagement, Cutter provides both useful information and insightful interpretations about African Americans’ participation in nineteenth-century visual culture while calling attention to intergenerational ties to our own visual and literary landscape."" * MELUS * ""Brown’s ingenious escape from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, by mailing himself in a wooden postal crate to abolitionists in Philadelphia, was unique and well documented. But that is not the story that most interests the author of this elegant cultural history. Cutter focuses on how Brown turned his experience in slavery into performance art on various tracks in many different locales"" * Pennsylvania Heritage *"


"""Brown’s ingenious escape from slavery in Richmond, Virginia, by mailing himself in a wooden postal crate to abolitionists in Philadelphia, was unique and well documented. But that is not the story that most interests the author of this elegant cultural history. Cutter focuses on how Brown turned his experience in slavery into performance art on various tracks in many different locales"" * Pennsylvania Heritage *"


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Martha J. Cutter is Professor of English and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of The Illustrated Slave: Empathy, Graphic Narrative, and the Visual Culture of the Transatlantic Abolition Movement, 1800–1852; Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and Politics of Language Diversity; Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women’s Writing, 1850–1930; and the co-editor of Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels.

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