{"product_id":"the-black-avenger-in-atlantic-grgory-pierrot-9780820354910","title":"The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the Ta-Nehisi Coates-authored \u003cem\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/em\u003e comic book series (2016); recent films \u003cem\u003eDjango Unchained\u003c\/em\u003e (2012) and \u003cem\u003eThe Birth of a Nation\u003c\/em\u003e (2016); Nate Parker's cinematic imagining of the Nat Turner rebellion; and screen adaptations of Marvel's \u003cem\u003eLuke Cage\u003c\/em\u003e (2016) and \u003cem\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/em\u003e (2018); violent black redeemers have rarely been so present in mainstream Western culture. Gr馮ory Pierrot argues, however, that the black avenger has always been with us: the trope has fired the news and imaginations of the United States and the larger Atlantic World for three centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe black avenger channeled fresh anxieties about slave uprisings and racial belonging occasioned by European colonization in the Americas. Even as he is portrayed as a heathen and a barbarian, his values--honor, loyalty, love--reflect his ties to the West. Yet being racially different, he cannot belong, and his qualities in turn make him an anomaly among black people. The black avenger is thus a liminal figure defining racial borders. Where his body lies, lies the color line. Regularly throughout the modern era and to this day, variations on the trope have contributed to defining race in the Atlantic World and thwarting the constitution of a black polity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePierrot's \u003cem\u003eThe Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture\u003c\/em\u003e studies this cultural history, examining a multicultural and cross-historical network of print material including fiction, drama, poetry, news, and historical writing as well as visual culture. It tracks the black avenger trope from its inception in the seventeenth century to the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915. Pierrot argues that this Western archetype plays an essential role in helping exclusive, hostile understandings of racial belonging become normalized in the collective consciousness of Atlantic nations. His study follows important articulations of the figure and how it has shifted based on historical and cultural contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gr馮ory Pierrot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820354910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820354910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Gr馮ory Pierrot","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926518366463,"sku":"9780820354910","price":104.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_87500ce1-edde-434a-8485-37e1abf26494.jpg?v=1681083508","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-black-avenger-in-atlantic-grgory-pierrot-9780820354910","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}