Literature, Art and Slavery - Ekphrastic Visions

Examines a range of literary responses to images drawn from the transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath

About the author

Carl Plasa is a Professor of English Literature in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, having lectured previously at the Universities of Manchester and Cork. He has written numerous essays and articles on British, American, Caribbean and African American Literature, as well as three monographs: Slaves to Sweetness: British and Caribbean Literatures of Sugar (Liverpool University Press, 2009); Charlotte Brontë (Palgrave, 2004); and Textual Politics from Slavery to Postcolonialism: Race and Identification (Macmillan, 2000). He is currently researching a new book on the Pre-Raphaelites and their legacies from the 1930s to the present day.

Product details

• Authors: Carl Plasa
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9780748683574
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-8357-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies