Atlantic Crossings in the Wake of Frederick Douglass ─ Archaeology, Literature, and Spatial Culture

To highlight the longstanding tie between former slave Douglass and Cork, Ireland after his 1845 sojourn in Ireland and England, doctoral English students at Cork University and doctoral students of historical archaeology at the University of Maryland--Douglass home state--collaborated on an education and research program from which the 11 studies here emerged. In sections on roots and routes: sites of slavery, passages to freedom; transatlantic comparatives, and creating identities, they consider such topics as transatlantic roots: cultural uses of plants at the Wye House Plantation; between freedom and slavery: understanding the material landscapes of labor in the 19th-century Maryland cities of Baltimore and Texas; domestic labor in black and green: deciphering the sensory experiences of African-American and Irish domestics working in Alexandria, Virginia; negative space and narrative elision in 20th-century Soviet and American fiction: towards a transnational aesthetic of paranoid representation; and William Faulkner, whiteness, and the transnational short story. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

MARK P. LEONE has taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1976, and is the author of books on historical archaeology. He is also the co-editor, with Jocelyn Knauf, of a recent book on critical historical archaeology.LEE M. JENKINS is a professor in the School of English, University College Cork, is the author of books on Wallace Stevens, Caribbean poetry, and D.H. Lawrence, and has co-edited three collections (with Alex Davis) on literary modernism.