The Multicolored Eye: David Dorr’s Vision in A Colored Man Round the World
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This paper examines A Colored Man Round the World (1858)—a memoir of the nineteenth century African American slave David Dorr—in which Dorr presents a black traveling culture of painful yet hopeful journeys by crossing the Atlantic Ocean serving his master, Cornelius Fellowes. While not minimizing his experiences of trauma, I am particularly interested in how Dorr uniquely and surprisingly navigated his own routes of survival, defiance, and subversion in the white-centered world of transatlantic slavery. Traveling beyond state and national boundaries enabled Dorr to perform as a flâneur—a modern spectator—who reveals a hybrid and “multicolored” gaze as a wealthy American gentleman yet also as a “colored” slave. Dorr’s performative role in travelling is reflected in his writing as a travel book. Reading A Colored Man presents a complex vision of a colored man’s travel, especially when it is related to his unstable subjectivity and ability as a quadroon from American South. Managing the use of senses, especially the faculty of seeing while traveling around the world, Dorr tries to subvert his status as an enslaved man although it cannot be fully fulfilled.
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This paper examines A Colored Man Round the World (1858)—a memoir of the nineteenth century African American slave David Dorr—in which Dorr presents a black traveling culture of painful yet hopeful journeys by crossing the Atlantic Ocean serving his master, Cornelius Fellowes. While not minimizing his experiences of trauma, I am particularly interested in how Dorr uniquely and surprisingly navigated his own routes of survival, defiance, and subversion in the white-centered world of transatlantic slavery. Traveling beyond state and national boundaries enabled Dorr to perform as a flâneur—a modern spectator—who reveals a hybrid and “multicolored” gaze as a wealthy American gentleman yet also as a “colored” slave. Dorr’s performative role in travelling is reflected in his writing as a travel book. Reading A Colored Man presents a complex vision of a colored man’s travel, especially when it is related to his unstable subjectivity and ability as a quadroon from American South. Managing the use of senses, especially the faculty of seeing while traveling around the world, Dorr tries to subvert his status as an enslaved man although it cannot be fully fulfilled.
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