Brycchan Carey / Peter J. Kitson (eds.)

Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition

Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807
Herausgeber: Carey, Brycchan; Kitson, Peter J

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Produktbeschreibung

Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this wide-ranging collection.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781843841203
• ISBN-10: 1843841207
• Artikelnr.: 22389106

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Emancipation Art, Fanon and the `Butchery of Freedom'
Marcus Wood The Afterlives of Three
fingered Jack
Diana Paton Putting Down Rebellion. Witnessing the Body of the Condemned in Abolition
era Narratives
Sarah Salih The Horror of Hybridity: Enlightenment, Anti
slavery and Racial Disgust in Charlotte Smith's Story of Henrietta (1800)
George Boulukos "To Rivet and to Record": Conversion and Collective Memory in Equiano's `Interesting Narrative'
Lincoln Shlensky Henry Smeathman and the Natural Economy of Slavery
Deirdre Coleman Slavery, Blackness and Islam: The Arabian Nights in the Eighteenth Century
Felicity Nussbaum Slavery and Sensibility: A Historical Dilemma
Gerald Maclean `Go West Old Woman': The Radical Re
visioning of Slave History in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River
Mararoula Joannou