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The First American "Superspy" : Secret Agency and the Black Nation in Martin R. Delany's Blake

SMITH, Jeffrey Alan

Basic information

Original name

The First American "Superspy" : Secret Agency and the Black Nation in Martin R. Delany's Blake

Authors

SMITH, Jeffrey Alan (840 United States of America, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Opava, Silesian Studies in English 2018 : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of English and American Studies, p. 157-166, 10 pp. 2019

Publisher

Silesian University in Opava Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Foreign Languages

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Field of Study

60206 Specific literatures

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

electronic version available online

References:

Silesian Studies in English 2018

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/19:00117003

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

ISBN

978-80-7510-398-7

Keywords in English

Martin R. Delany; Blake; The Huts of America; black nationalism; spy fiction; superspy

Abstract

V originále

Martin R. Delany’s only novel, Blake; Or, the Huts of America, has been studied for its black-nationalist ideas but criticized as poorly crafted. There is widespread confusion even as to its genre. This essay argues that both its artistic and ideological aims are clarified if we view its hero, Henry Blake, as a forerunner of later “superspies” like Richard Hannay and James Bond. Blake serves no existing state but the black “nation within a nation,” as Delany had earlier called it. His secret mission: to lend that nation agency, bringing it into existence through his international, omni-capable exploits.

Links

MUNI/A/1003/2017, interní kód MU

Name: Profilace výzkumných zaměření v anglofonní lingvistické a literární vědě III (Acronym: PROVYZAN III)

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A

Citovat

SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. The First American "Superspy" : Secret Agency and the Black Nation in Martin R. Delany's Blake. Online. In Crhová, Marie; Weiss, Michaela. Silesian Studies in English 2018 : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of English and American Studies. Opava: Silesian University in Opava Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Foreign Languages, 2019, p. 157-166. ISBN 978-80-7510-398-7.

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SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. The First American ''Superspy'' : Secret Agency and the Black Nation in Martin R. Delany's Blake. Online. In Crhová, Marie; Weiss, Michaela. \textit{Silesian Studies in English 2018 : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of English and American Studies}. Opava: Silesian University in Opava Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Foreign Languages, 2019, p.~157-166. ISBN~978-80-7510-398-7.

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