Representing the body of the slave / / editors, Thomas Wiedemann, Jane Gardner
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| Titolo: |
Representing the body of the slave / / editors, Thomas Wiedemann, Jane Gardner
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (206 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305 |
| 700.4520625 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Slavery - History |
| Enslaved persons - Public opinion - History | |
| Slavery in literature | |
| Slavery in art | |
| Altri autori: |
GardnerJane F
WiedemannThomas E. J
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| Note generali: | "First appeared as a special issue of Slavery and abolition, Volume 23, no. 2, August 2002"-- T.p. verso. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Introduction; THE ANCIENT WORLD; Inverted Kalokagathia; Seeing Things: Examining the Body of the Slave in Greek Medicine; Slave Disguise in Ancient Rome; BETWEEN ANCIENT AND MODERN; Representing the Slave's Body in Ottoman Society; The Image of the Slave in Some Anglo-Saxon and Norse Sources; NORTH AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN SLAVERY; 'Arms Like Polished Iron': The Black Slave Body in Narratives of a Slave Ship Revolt |
| 'An Outrage on all Decency': Abolitionist Reactions to Flogging Jamaican Slave Women, 1780-1834BRAZIL; Customs and Costumes: Carlos Julião and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil; African Abrahams, Lucretias and Men of Sorrows: Allegory and Allusion in the Brazilian Anti-slavery Lithographs (1827-1835) of Johann Moritz Rugendas; Brazilian Slaves Represented in their Own Words; Notes on Contributors; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Representing the body of the slave |
| ISBN: | 0-7146-8288-8 |
| 1-317-79171-1 | |
| 1-315-81016-6 | |
| 1-317-79172-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823120403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Routledge studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures.