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Criminal genius in African American and US literature, 1793-1845
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- Summary
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"An investigation on how the development of conceptions of genius relate to struggles over enslavement and carceral practices"--
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- Creator
- Erin Forbes
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024
- ©2024
- Physical Details
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- ix, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781421443751, 1421443759, 9781421443768, 1421443767, 9781421443775
- OCLC
- on1394114458
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction : "nourished in vice" -- Zombies of civic virtue -- The convict's corpus -- Outlaw humanism -- The Southampton insurgency -- Fugitive aesthetics -- Conclusion : new forms of crime