Grateful Slave - The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth Century British American Culture

Klappentext A fresh account of the development of racial difference in the eighteenth-century English-speaking world.The literary trope of the grateful slave was used to justify colonial practices of white supremacy in the eighteenth century. Taking in literary sources as well as texts on colonialism and slavery, in this book Boulukos offers a fresh account of the development of racial difference in the eighteenth-century English-speaking world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The prehistory of the grateful slave; 2. The origin of the grateful slave: Daniel Defoe's Col. Jack, 1722; 3. The evolution of the grateful slave 1754-77: the emergence of racial difference in the slavery debate and the novel; 4. The 1780s: transition; 5. Gratitude in the Black Atlantic: Equiano writes back, 1789; 6. The 1790s: ameliorationist convergence; Epilogue: grateful slaves, faithful slaves, mammies and martyrs: the Transatlantic afterlife of the grateful slave; Bibliography.

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• Authors: George Boulukos, George (Professor Boulukos, Boulukos George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2012
• EAN: 9780521188661
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18866-1
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, C 1700 To C 1800