The essay offers a novel approach to the intertextual connections between antebellum authors such as Brown, Douglass, and Delany by exploring how they mobilized travel, a characterizing trope of speculative fiction, to articulate aesthetic and political projects of liberation.

"He Like a Wind Cloud Flew": The Speculative Narrative Politics of Travel in Clotel, The Heroic Slave, and Blake

M. Giulia Fabi
2018

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The essay offers a novel approach to the intertextual connections between antebellum authors such as Brown, Douglass, and Delany by exploring how they mobilized travel, a characterizing trope of speculative fiction, to articulate aesthetic and political projects of liberation.
2018
Giulia Fabi, M.
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