"Civil" War Wounds: William Wells Brown, Violence, and the Domestic Narrative

James talk about the works of the first published black American novelist William Wells Brown. Among other things, he argues that Brown's unwillingness to provide Jerome and Clotelle with either a protective corporeal language in the Civil War section of the 1867 revision reflects the writer�...

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Published in:	African American review 2005-03, Vol.39 (1/2), p.39-54
Main Author:	James, Jennifer
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1800-1899 African American authors African American Characters African American culture African American studies African Americans American Civil War American literature Authors Black culture Brown, William Wells (1815-1884) Brown, William Wells(1816?-1884) Civil War, 1861-1865 Civil wars Clotel Clotelle, the Colored Heroine Criticism and interpretation domestic space Domesticity English Literature Heroism Literary criticism Marriage Narratives Nineteenth Century novel Novels Portrayals race Slavery Slaves textual revision The Negro in the American Rebellion United States history Violence War Works Writers
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