Representing the Body of the Slave (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Gardner, Jane; Wiedemann, Thomas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at examples of the physical depiction of slaves, from the ancient and medieval worlds and from slave societies of more recent times in the Americas and the Caribbean.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317791720
• Artikelnr.: 40020507

Autorenporträt

University of Nottingham., Universities of Reading and Nottingham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Thomas Wiedemann and Jane Gardner. Part 1 The ancient world:
inverted kalokagathia, Ingomar Weiler; seeing things - examining the body
of the slave in Greek medicine, Niall McKeown; slave disguise in ancient
Rome, Michele George. Part 2 Between ancient and modern: representing the
slave's body in Ottoman society, Ehud R. Toledano; the image of the slave
in some Anglo-Saxon and Norse sources, David Pelteret. Part 3 North
American and Caribbean slavery: arms like polished iron - the black slave
boy in narratives in a slave ship revolt, Celeste-Marie Bernier; an outrage
on all decency - abolitionist reactions to flogging Jamaican slave women,
1780-1834, Henrice Altink; customs and costumes - Carlos Juliao and the
image of black slaves in late 18th-century Brazil, Silvia Hunold Lara;
African Abrahams, Lucretias and men of sorrows - allegory and allusion in
the Brazilian anti-slavery lithographs (1827-1835) of Johann Moritz
Rugendas, Robert W. Slenes; Brazilian slaves represented in their own
words, Robert Krueger.