LEADER 05420nam 2201129Ia 450 001 9910822293403321 005 20240508133648.0 010 $a1-283-16902-9 010 $a9786613169020 010 $a1-4008-4011-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400840113 035 $a(CKB)2550000000040777 035 $a(EBL)736910 035 $a(OCoLC)744465979 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525706 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11348127 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525706 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10520019 035 $a(PQKB)11262776 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC736910 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000515043 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36968 035 $a(DE-B1597)446630 035 $a(OCoLC)979579584 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400840113 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL736910 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10484249 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL316902 035 $a(dli)HEB31731 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012918714 035 $a(PPN)187268843 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000040777 100 $a20110228d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSlavery and the culture of taste /$fSimon Gikandi 205 $aCore Textbook 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2011] 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-16097-X 311 $a0-691-14066-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Overture: Sensibility in the Age of Slavery --$t2. Intersections: Taste, Slavery, and the Modern Self --$t3. Unspeakable Events: Slavery and White Self-Fashioning --$t4. Close Encounters: Taste and the Taint of Slavery --$t5. "Popping Sorrow": Loss and the Transformation of Servitude --$t6. The Ontology of Play: Mimicry and the Counterculture of Taste --$tCoda: Three Fragments --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aIt would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time. Gikandi focuses on the ways that the enslavement of Africans and the profits derived from this exploitation enabled the moment of taste in European--mainly British--life, leading to a transformation of bourgeois ideas regarding freedom and selfhood. He explores how these connections played out in the immense fortunes made in the West Indies sugar colonies, supporting the lavish lives of English barons and altering the ideals that defined middle-class subjects. Discussing how the ownership of slaves turned the American planter class into a new aristocracy, Gikandi engages with the slaves' own response to the strange interplay of modern notions of freedom and the realities of bondage, and he emphasizes the aesthetic and cultural processes developed by slaves to create spaces of freedom outside the regimen of enforced labor and truncated leisure. Through a close look at the eighteenth century's many remarkable documents and artworks, Slavery and the Culture of Taste sets forth the tensions and contradictions entangling a brutal practice and the distinctions of civility. 606 $aSlavery in literature 606 $aSlavery$xMoral and ethical aspects 610 $aAfrica. 610 $aAmerican plantocracy. 610 $aBarack Obama. 610 $aBritain. 610 $aChristopher Codrington. 610 $aJames Tallmadge Jr. 610 $aMissouri. 610 $aW. E. B. Du Bois. 610 $aWest Indies. 610 $aWilliam Beckford. 610 $aantebellum South. 610 $aart. 610 $abeauty. 610 $ablack difference. 610 $ablack self. 610 $ablack people. 610 $abondage. 610 $abourgeois culture. 610 $aconsumption. 610 $aculture. 610 $aenslaved persons. 610 $aenslavement. 610 $afestival. 610 $afreedom. 610 $aidentity. 610 $ainvoluntary servitude. 610 $amodern identity. 610 $arace. 610 $aselfhood. 610 $asensibility. 610 $aslavery. 610 $asorrow songs. 610 $astatehood. 610 $asugar colonies. 610 $ataste. 610 $aviolence. 615 0$aSlavery in literature. 615 0$aSlavery$xMoral and ethical aspects. 676 $a306.3/6209033 700 $aGikandi$b Simon$0221560 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822293403321 996 $aSlavery and the culture of taste$92312557 997 $aUNINA