Discourse of Slavery - From Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison

Informationen zum Autor Carl Plasa is Lecturer in English at the University of Wales College of Cardiff. He has published articles on nineteenth-and twentieth-century literature and is presently working on a study of inscriptions of colonialism in Austen, Charlotte Brontë and Rhys., Betty J. Ring is currently completing a doctoral thesis at Birkbeck College, University of London, on post-war consciousness in the work of William Golding. Klappentext First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung An inovative collection of essays addressing the problematic of slavery in British and American literary, cultural and political writings, from Aphra Behn to Toni Morrison. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Carl Plasa, Betty J. Ring; Chapter 1 Looks that Kill, Anne Fogarty; Chapter 2 Sex, Slavery and Rights in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindications, Jane Moore; Chapter 3 “That Mild Beam”, Steven Vine; Chapter 4 “Silent Revolt”, Carl Plasa; Chapter 5 Anglo-American Connections, Elizabeth Jean Sabiston; Chapter 6 “Painting By Numbers”, Betty J. Ring; Chapter 7 Perilous Passages in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of A Slave Girl, Jon Hauss; Chapter 8 The Irony of Idealism, David Lawrence Rogers; Chapter 9 Prophesying Bodies, April Lidinsky;

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• Authors: Carla Plasa Nfa, Carl Plasa, Carla Plasa, Betty J Ring, Betty J. Ring
• Assisted by: Carla Plasa (Editor), Plasa Carla (Editor), Betty J Ring (Editor), Ring Betty J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.1994
• EAN: 9780415081528
• ISBN: 978-0-415-08152-8
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery