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Marshall, Zach.

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Antislavery Media: Circulating Revolution in the United States.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Antislavery Media: Circulating Revolution in the United States./
Author:	Marshall, Zach.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	197 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10280959
ISBN:	9781369766653

Antislavery Media: Circulating Revolution in the United States.
Marshall, Zach.

Antislavery Media: Circulating Revolution in the United States. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 197 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017.

This project examines ephemeral media---their substance, their communication circuits, and narratives about how they worked---in order to reimagine the objects, encounters, networks, and affects of communication in the nineteenth century. Many slaves, free blacks, and whites communicated in ways that disrupted the system of slavery. Some like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe used print; others used songs and eclipses, undertheorized forms of media that were more transient than print but just as consequential. Media studies calls attention to the physical forms of communication rather than to content alone, but the field has often overlooked how narrative shapes the ways media operate, especially for sounds or environments, whose printed descriptions are more durable than their forms. Bringing the methods of media studies to the literature of slavery enables me to conceptualize revolutionary claims, such as an eclipse's potential to coordinate an interstate revolt, a swamp's potential to link remote hideouts with Southern plantations, and singing's ability to stop a riot. Communicating via eclipse, swamp, song, or newspaper---methods often overlooked in media and literary studies---advanced users' revolutionary goals: prompting slave uprising, altering listeners' consciousness, or carving out social space in forbidding landscapes.

ISBN: 9781369766653Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

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