![]() In doing so, it marks a retreat from the celebratory transnationalism that had infused Douglass's earlier politics, refocusing its attention on the historical present, and future role of African American in the United States.įrederick Douglass’s novella “The Heroic Slave” (1853) centres on issues of narrative voice. Written at a moment at which the very existence of African American freedom seemed to be under threat, the novella produces an enabling fiction of self-emancipation directed not only at the slave South, but seeking to generate a futurist political vision, based on inclusive citizenship, for free black people in the North. ![]() Working against the sentimental abstractions inflecting white narrative and visual aesthetics in the period, Douglass's fictive technique invokes the visual realism of the daguerreotype, focusing on the physical form of Madison Washington, while exploring the range of available genres available - dramatic, fictional and historical. ![]() ![]() The Heroic Slave (1853) was perhaps the most significant of Douglass's responses to Harriet Beecher Stowe's abolitionist blockbuster, Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). ![]()
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