Representing the Body of the Slave

From the ancient world through to modern times the bodies of slaves have been represented in literature, documentary and personal narrative writing, and in art. This volume presents evidence of the past sins of mankind in both art and literature.

List of contents

Introduction, Thomas Wiedemann and Jane Gardner. Part 1 The ancient world: inverted kalokagathia, Ingomar Weiler; seeing things - examining the body of the slave in Greek medicine, Niall McKeown; slave disguise in ancient Rome, Michele George. Part 2 Between ancient and modern: representing the slave's body in Ottoman society, Ehud R. Toledano; the image of the slave in some Anglo-Saxon and Norse sources, David Pelteret. Part 3 North American and Caribbean slavery: arms like polished iron - the black slave boy in narratives in a slave ship revolt, Celeste-Marie Bernier; an outrage on all decency - abolitionist reactions to flogging Jamaican slave women, 1780-1834, Henrice Altink; customs and costumes - Carlos Juliao and the image of black slaves in late 18th-century Brazil, Silvia Hunold Lara; African Abrahams, Lucretias and men of sorrows - allegory and allusion in the Brazilian anti-slavery lithographs (1827-1835) of Johann Moritz Rugendas, Robert W. Slenes; Brazilian slaves represented in their own words, Robert Krueger.

About the author

University of Nottingham., Universities of Reading and Nottingham.

Summary

This book looks at examples of the physical depiction of slaves, from the ancient and medieval worlds and from slave societies of more recent times in the Americas and the Caribbean.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jane Gardner (Editor), Gardner Jane (Editor), Thomas E J Wiedemann (Editor), Wiedemann Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2002
• EAN: 9780714682884
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-8288-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Weight: 390 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History, HISTORY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, Social and cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Literature: history and criticism, Slavery and abolition of slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General