Imagining Transatlantic Slavery / / edited by C. Kaplan, J. Oldfield

• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2010.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (222 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3/62
• Soggetto topico: Literature - Philosophy; Culture - Study and teaching; Race; Social history; Civilization - History; America - Literatures; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Race and Ethnicity Studies; Social History; Cultural History; North American Literature
• Altri autori: KaplanCora OldfieldJ. R (John R.)
• Note generali: Papers originally presented at a conference.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Cultures of abolition. Inventing a culture of anti-slavery: Pennsylvanian Quakers and the Germantown Protest of 1688 / Brycchan Carey -- (Re)mapping abolitionist discourse during the 1790s: the case of Benjamin Flower and the Cambridge Intelligencer / John Oldfield -- 'Another Ida May': photography and the American abolition campaign / Jessie Morgan-Owens -- Exchanging fugitive identity: William and Ellen Craft's transatlantic reinvention (1850-69) / HollyGale Millette -- pt. 2. Imaging transatlantic slavery. Equiano's paradise lost: the limits of allusion in chapter five of The Interesting Narrative / Vincent Carretta -- Phillis Wheatley's abolitionist text: the 1834 edition / Eileen Razzari Elrod -- Women and abolitionism: Hannah More's and Ann Yearsley's poetry and freedom / Lilla Maria Crisafulli -- pt. 3. Remembering and forgetting. Representing slavery in British museums: The challenges of 2007 / Douglas Hamilton -- Coram boy: slavery, theatricality and sentimentality on the British stage / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace -- Significant silence: where was slave agency in the popular imagery of 2007? / Marcus Wood -- Afterword: Britain 2007, problematising histories / Catherine Hall.
• Sommario/riassunto: This exciting interdisciplinary volume, featuring contributions from a group of leading international scholars, reflects on the long history of representations of transatlantic slaves and slavery, encompassing a broad chronological range, from the eighteenth century to the present day.
• Titolo autorizzato: Imagining Transatlantic Slavery
• ISBN: 9786612870163; 9781282870161; 1282870165; 9780230277106; 0230277101
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910964675303321
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