An innovative transnational literary study, Black Prometheus tracks the mythical figure's surprising resonance in Anglo-American antislavery discourse from 1800 until the end of the U.S. Civil War.
An innovative transnational literary study, Black Prometheus tracks the mythical figure's surprising resonance in Anglo-American antislavery discourse from 1800 until the end of the U.S. Civil War.
Jared Hickman is Associate Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Acknowledgements * Introduction Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery * Chapter 1 Globalization and the Gods: A Theory of Race and--or as--Modernity * Chapter 2 The Terms of Prometheus's Liberation: Romanticism, Slavery, and the Titan's Triumph * Chapter 3 Africa versus the Absolute Idealism and Its Others * Chapter 4 The Afro-Promethean "Science of the Stars" * Chapter 5 Re-binding Prometheus to the Caucasus: Idealism's Other Solution * Chapter 6 Imam Shamil or, the Modern Prometheus of Caucasus * Chapter 7 Rebellious Fictions: Black Prometheus and the Undoing of the Novelistic Form * Chapter 8 Byronic Abolitionism * Index
* Acknowledgements * Introduction Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery * Chapter 1 Globalization and the Gods: A Theory of Race and--or as--Modernity * Chapter 2 The Terms of Prometheus's Liberation: Romanticism, Slavery, and the Titan's Triumph * Chapter 3 Africa versus the Absolute Idealism and Its Others * Chapter 4 The Afro-Promethean "Science of the Stars" * Chapter 5 Re-binding Prometheus to the Caucasus: Idealism's Other Solution * Chapter 6 Imam Shamil or, the Modern Prometheus of Caucasus * Chapter 7 Rebellious Fictions: Black Prometheus and the Undoing of the Novelistic Form * Chapter 8 Byronic Abolitionism * Index
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