Examines a range of literary responses to images drawn from the
transatlantic slave trade and its aftermath A focus on texts that
(with the obvious exception of David Dabydeen's 'Turner' [1994])
exist at the critical and canonical margin An emphasis on Black
Atlantic writers, designed to counter the bias in much ekphrastic
criticism towards white authors Location of African American
literature in conversation with African American as well as white
American art Since around 2000, there has been a noticeable upsurge
in critical work on the visual archive of Atlantic slavery,
resulting in a host of important studies. While most of these
contributions are weighted towards images created during the era of
slavery itself, some critics have adopted a more historically
far-reaching approach, exploring the ways in which such images live
on beyond the original context of their production, circulation and
consumption, returning imaginatively in different forms at
different times and in different places. This book shares the
fascination with the afterlives which such visual materials have
enjoyed, but places the accent on how that posterity has evolved in
the realms of literature, especially poetry. It focuses on
transactions between texts written between the mid-1990s and 2020
and images of slavery that belong to British, American and (in one
case) French traditions, as produced between c. 1779 and 1939.
General
Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures |
Release date: |
April 2020 |
Authors: |
Carl Plasa
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-7486-8354-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-7486-8354-2 |
Barcode: |
9780748683543 |
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