Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism: Reconfiguring Gender, Race, and Nation in American Antislavery Literature

Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and audiences of antislavery literature. Pia Wiegmink draws attention to locales, authors, and webs of entanglement between texts, ideas, and people. Perceived through the lens of gender and transnationalism, American antislavery literature emerges as a body of writing that presents profoundly reconfigured literary imaginations of freedom and equality in the United States prior to the Civil War.

About the author

Pia Wiegmink is Professor of Slavery and Dependency Studies at Bonn University, Germany. She is co-editor of German Entanglements with Slavery (Routledge, 2017) and American Cultures as Transnational Performance (Routledge, 2021).

For Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism, Pia Wiegmink received the 2020 EAAS Rob Kroes Award.

Product details

• Authors: Pia Wiegmink
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.09.2022
• EAN: 9789004520929
• ISBN: 978-90-04-52092-9
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 238 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 717 g
• Series: European Perspectives on the U
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous