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Where Is All My Relation?: The Poetics of Dave the Potter

Where Is All My Relation?: The Poetics of Dave the Potter


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Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War. During the 1830s, 40s, and 50s, he incised couplets and signatures (a singular "Dave") onto the incredibly large storage vessels that he made. In fact, his stoneware pots and jars are among the largest made in North America during the antebellum era, and craft enthusiasts and appraisers are still proclaiming their precision and ambitious volume. Rich with biblical allusions, historical facts, and personal opinions, his art provides unique insights into the lives of slaves, craftsmen, and the culture of the American South in the first half of the nineteenth century. The essays here engage with the historical context and major issues that Drake's work provokes, among them: prohibitions against slave literacy; Drake's privileged status compared to other slaves at the time; the interpretive status of his material craft objects; the influence of contemporary African American poet George Moses Horton; and Drake's ability to sell his pottery despite the fact that slaves were not officially permitted to participate in a cash economy. Featuring essays by literary critics, art-historians, archaeologists, and curators, Where Is All My Relation? provides a window into the world of nineteenth century material culture and expands our traditional understanding of the slave-narrative genre.

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter 1: 'Great & Noble Jar': David Drake, George Moses Horton, and the Possibilities of Poetry Faith Barrett Chapter 2: A Letter to David Drake from a Friend and a Relation Evie Shockley Chapter 3: Shifted Perspectives on Dave: Implications of Archaeological Excavation at the Pottersville Kiln Site George Calfas Chapter 4: Inscribing Economic Desire: Dave the Potter's Money Inscriptions Xiomara Santamarina Chapter 5: Signifying Jars, Resonating Like a Banjar: Influence, Politics, and Poetics in Dave's Pottery Babatunde Lawal Chapter 6: The Fourth of July is Surely Come Elisa Edwards Chapter 7: The Concatenate Poetics of Slavery and the Articulate Material of Dave the Potter Michael A. Chaney Chapter 8: Writing in Clay: The Materiality of Dave's Poetry Ethan W. Lasser Chapter 9: 1857: Dave the Potter's August Pots, Sexual Imagery, and Dred Scott P. Gabrielle Foreman Chapter 10: An Easter Prayer, 1859 Carla L. Peterson Chapter 11: Beneath Notice: A Social Philology of the Poetry of Dave the Potter Jon Woodson Chapter 12: Accident Before Love, on "horses, mules, and hogs -" Sharon P. Holland Chapter 13: Potter's Field: Trauma and Representation in the Art of David Drake Michael Bramwell Chapter 14: Darion McCloud as Dave the Potter: The Model and the Artist's Mission Dianne Johnson Chapter 15: 'Who Are The Other Potters? What Are Their Names?': Dave the Potter, Theaster Gates, and the Aesthetics of Power in African American Art and Craft Shelly Jarenski

About the Author :
Michael A. Chaney is Associate Professor of English at Dartmouth College and the author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Identity in Antebellum Narrative (2008).

Review :
"Though most of the contributors are professors of English or art history and write in an academic style, the collection offers such a broad range of views that it will be of interest in many disciplines ... Summing up: Highly recommended." -- CHOICE


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199390205
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 157 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 522 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199390207
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jul 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: The Poetics of Dave the Potter
  • Width: 236 mm


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