Fugitive Borders Black Canadian Crossborder Literature At Midnineteenth Century Nele Sawallisch Knowledge Unlatched Ku Select 2021 Backlist Collection by Nele Sawallisch; Knowledge Unlatched - Ku Select 2021: Backlist Collection 9783839445020, 3839445027 instant download after payment.

Fugitive Borders explores a new archive of 19th-century autobiographical writing by black authors in North America. For that purpose, Nele Sawallisch examines four different texts written by formerly enslaved men in the 1850s that emerged in or around the historical region of Canada West (now known as Ontario) and that defy the genre conventions of the classic slave narrative. Instead, these texts demonstrate originality in expressing complex, often ambivalent attitudes towards the so-called Canadian Promised Land and contribute to a form of textual community-building across national borders. In the context of emerging national discourses before Canada's Confederation in 1867, they offer alternatives to the hegemonic narrative of the white settler nation.