Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition
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This edition of Blake, prepared by textual scholar Jerome McGann, offers the first correct printing of the work in book form. It establishes an accurate text, supplies contextual notes and commentaries, and presents an authoritative account of the work’s composition and publication history. In a lively introduction, McGann argues that Delany employs the resources of fiction to develop a critical account of the interconnected structure of racist power as it operated throughout the American Atlantic. He likens Blake to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, in its willful determination to transform a living and terrible present.
Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Corrected Edition will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes on the history of African American fiction, on the history of the American novel, and on black cultural studies. General readers will welcome as well the first reliable edition of Delany’s fiction.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674088726 |
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| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication date: | 02/13/2017 |
| Pages: | 376 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.20(d) |
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Table of Contents
Introduction ix
Editors Note xxxiii
Blake; or, The Huts of America: A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba
Part I
Chapter I The Project 5
Chapter II Colonel Franks at Home 6
Chapter III The Fate of Maggie 9
Chapter IV The Departure of Maggie 12
Chapter V A Vacancy 14
Chapter VI Henrys Return 16
Chapter VII Master and Slave 19
Chapter VIII The Sale 24
Chapter IX The Runaway 29
Chapter X Merry Making 34
Chapter XI A Shadow 37
Chapter XII The Discovery 46
Chapter XII Perplexity 53
Chapter XIV Gad and Gossip 57
Chapter XV Interchange of Opinion 61
Chapter XVI Solicitude and Amusement 66
Chapter XVII Henry at Large 69
Chapter XVIII Fleeting Shadows 74
Chapter XIX Come What Will 81
Chapter XX Advent Among the Indians 86
Chapter XXII What Not 89
Chapter XXIII New Orleans 99
Chapter XXIII The Rebel Blacks 108
Chapter XXIV A Flying Cloud 109
Chapter XXV Like Father, Like Son 116
Chapter XXVI Return to Mississippi 125
Chapter xxvii A Night of Anxiety 126
Chapter xxviii Studying Head Work 132
Chapter xxix The Fugitives 137
Chapter xxx The Pursuit 140
Chapter xxxi The Attack, Resistance, Arrest 144
Chapter xxxii The Escape 151
Chapter xxxiii Happy Greeting 153
Chapter xxxiv A Novel Adventure 158
Part II
Chapter xxxv Cornelia Woodward 165
Chapter xxxvi Henry at the Hacienda 168
Chapter xxxvii A Glimmer of Hope 173
Chapter xxxviii Impatience 177
Chapter xxxix The Discovery 181
Chapter Xl The Confrontment 185
Chapter xli Obscurity 192
Chapter xlii The Interview-Blake 194
Chapter xliii Meeting and Greeting 201
Chapter xliv Seeking Employment" 201
Chapter xlv Coastward Bound 203
Chapter xlvi Trans-Atlantic 205
Chapter xlvii Significant 209
Chapter xlviii Making the Coast 213
Chapter xlix The Slave Factory 216
Chapter l Before Leaving 220
Chapter li Homeward Bound" 222
Chapter lii The Middle Passage 226
Chapter liii Middle Passage-Chase Continued 229
Chapter liv Storm During Middle Passage 233
Chapter lv The Captives 239
Chapter lvi The Seeleys 240
Chapter lvii Anticipation 242
Chapter lviii Gala Day 245
Chapter lix National Fete 248
Chapter lx Great Gathering at Madam Cordovas 250
Chapter lxi The Grand Council 257
Chapter lxii Fearful Misgivings 264
Chapter lxiii The Captain General and Lady 269
Chapter lxiv The Confrontment 273
Chapter lxv What of the Negroes? 274
Chapter lxvi Chit Chat 276
Chapter lxvii False Alarm 278
Chapter lxviii Sunday Morning" 280
Chapter lxix Entertainment at Carolus Blacus 283
Chapter lxx Momentous Step 291
Chapter lxxi Fearful Apprehensions 294
Chapter lxxii King's Day 299
Chapter lxxiii Increased Alarm 302
Chapter lxxiv American Tyranny-Oppression of the Negroes 306
Historical and Critical Notes 315
Further Reading" 333
Acknowledgments 335