Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition - Essays Marking the Bicentennial of the British Abolition Act of 1807

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

List of contents

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

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Brycchan Carey, Deirdre Coleman, Peter J. Kitson, Felicity Nussbaum, Diana Paton
• Assisted by: Brycchan Carey (Editor), Peter J Kitson (Editor), Peter J. Kitson (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.08.2007
• EAN: 9781843841203
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-120-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 224 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 621 g
• Series: Essays and Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Amerika, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General