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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"David Walker"”.
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Ground Plans: Conceptualizing Ecology in the Antebellum United States
… in relation to one another. In four chapters on David Walker, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, and Gerrit Smith, it shows that this theory of nature enabled these writers to argue for the complete transformation of society to bring it into line with what they characterized as nature's true …
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Signifying against antiblackness: Black Rhetoric in early African American writing
… antebellum Black Rhetoricians such as David Walker, Adam Carman, William Whipper, and Harriet Wilson study how language can be used to mask antiblack violence. Each chapter balances two argumentative objectives: to demonstrate that Black Rhetoric produces knowledge about the …
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Argentina in The African Diaspora: Afro-Argentine And African American Cultural Production, Race, And Nation Building in the 19th Century
… notes and by African American intellectuals David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet as well as poets Charles Lewis Reason, Joshua McCarter Simpson, and Alfred Gibbs Campbell. Through this critical reading, I explore the formal elements, such as rhetorical techniques, chosen formats, and …
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Writing American Soldiers: Nineteenth-Century Varieties of Military Experience
… War that I term the soldier appeal. Similar to David Walker, second-generation veteran literature was a species of literary appeal licensed by extreme suffering. This literature was political protest at the same time it was also an inchoate trial run at soldier community in the United States. In …
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Bottoms Up! John of Arderne and the Interest in Surgical Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
Going back as early as the Middle Ages, people and institutions have coveted and cherished books which were simultaneously a practical means of storing and preservation knowledge and an accessory decorating the people, institutions, and societies that kept them. However, there is still so much we …
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Collecting the past : aspects of historiography and lithic artefact analysis for the creation of narratives for the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales.
This submission for a PhD BY published work examines archaeological historiography and lithic artefact studies concerning aspects of the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology of Wales. The critical analysis connects the published works through the theoretical approach of biography. It draws out …