From Death Unto Life: The Rhetorical Function Of Funeral Rites In Arna Bontemps' "Black Thunder"
The funeral rites of the slave Bundy provide the central metaphor for Arna Bontemps' treatment of the Gabriel Prosser Conspiracy of 1800. In an inversion of the usual pattern of death as a transition from the world of the living to the world of the dead, Bontemps presents the conspirators'...
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| Language: | English |
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[1987]
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Journal of ritual studies
Year: 1987, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-101 |
| Further subjects: | B
Slave revolts
B Rape B Criminal conspiracy B African Americans B Funerals B Death B Slaves B White people |
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