Horrible Gift of Freedom - Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation

Informationen zum Autor MARCUS WOOD is a professor of English at the University of Sussex and author of several books, including Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America , winner of the best book prize given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. He also has a successful career as a painter, performance artist, and filmmaker, producing political work in the visual arts focused on questions of diaspora and racism. Klappentext Why did imagery showing the very instant of the birth of black slave freedom invariably personify Liberty as a white woman? Where did the image of the enchained kneeling slave! ubiquitous in abolitionist visual culture on both sides of the Atlantic! come from? This book attempts to answer these questions. Zusammenfassung By taking a new look at the role of the visual arts in promoting the “great emancipation swindle,” Wood brings into the open the manner in which the slave power and its inheritors have single-mindedly focused on celebratory cultural myths that function to diminish both white culpability and black outrage.

Product details

• Authors: Marcus Wood
• Assisted by: Patrick Rael (Editor), Manisha Sinha (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2010
• EAN: 9780820334271
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3427-1
• No. of pages: 516
• Series: Race in the Atlantic World, 17; Race in the Atlantic World, 17
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Geschichte, Kunst, allgemein, Sociology, HISTORY / Modern / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, ART / Art & Politics