Slavery and the cultures of abolition : essays marking the bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807

Slavery and the cultures of abolition : essays marking the bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807 / edited by Brycchan Carey & Peter J. Kitson.

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Andre forfattere: Carey, Brycchan, 1967-, Kitson, Peter J.
Format: Bog
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y.: D.S. Brewer, 2007.
Serier:Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) ; v. 60
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Slavery > Great Britain > History.
Slavery > Colonies > Great Britain > History.
Slavery in art.
Slavery in literature.
Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • Emancipation art, Fanon and the 'butchery of freedom' / Marcus Wood
  • Afterlives of Three-Fingered Jack / Diana Paton
  • Putting down rebellion: witnessing the body of the condemned in abolition-era narratives / Sara Salih
  • Horror of hybridity: enlightenment, anti-slavery and racial disgust in Charlotte Smith's Story of Henrietta (1800) / George Boulukos
  • 'To rivet and 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 A. 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 / Maroula Joannou.

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