Carmen Fracchia (Reader in Hispanic Reader in Hispanic Art History

'Black But Human'

Slavery and Visual Arts in Hapsburg Spain, 1480-1700

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Produktbeschreibung

'Black but Human' is a proverb which emerges from the African work songs and poems written by Afro-Hispanics enslaved in Spain during the Hapsburg dynasty. Carmen Fracchia uses the lens of visuals arts and material culture to understand the representation and self-representation of Afro-Hispanic slaves and ex-slaves in this period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780198767978
• ISBN-10: 0198767978
• Artikelnr.: 57009817

Autorenporträt

Carmen Fracchia is a Professor of Hispanic Art History at Birkbeck University of London. Her work focusses on the Hispanic intellectual, political, and religious thought about local Spanish and transatlantic slavery, freedom, subjectivity, and hybridity and their articulations in the visual form during the Hapsburg dynasty.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: 'Black but Human'
* 2: What Is Human About Slavery?
* 3: Visual Culture and Slavery
* 4: Props and Costume
* 5: Commodification: 'Is There Any Caste Lower Than Blacks and
Slaves From Guinea?'
* 6: The Image of Freedom: 'All Souls Are Of A Single Colour and They
Are Wrought In The Same Workshop'
* Conclusion