Jared Hickman

Black Prometheus

Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative transnational literary study, Black Prometheus tracks the mythical figure's surprising resonance in Anglo-American antislavery discourse from 1800 until the end of the U.S. Civil War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780190272586
• ISBN-10: 0190272589
• Artikelnr.: 47863460

Autorenporträt

Jared Hickman is Assistant Professor of English at Johns Hopkins University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* Introduction Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of
Atlantic Slavery
* Chapter 1 Globalization and the Gods: A Theory of Race and--or
as--Modernity
* Chapter 2 The Terms of Prometheus's Liberation: Romanticism, Slavery,
and the Titan's Triumph
* Chapter 3 Africa versus the Absolute Idealism and Its Others
* Chapter 4 The Afro-Promethean "Science of the Stars"
* Chapter 5 Re-binding Prometheus to the Caucasus: Idealism's Other
Solution
* Chapter 6 Imam Shamil or, the Modern Prometheus of Caucasus
* Chapter 7 Rebellious Fictions: Black Prometheus and the Undoing of
the Novelistic Form
* Chapter 8 Byronic Abolitionism
* Index