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The Power of Neo-Slave Fiction and Public History - From Slavery to the Enslaved
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The Power of Neo-Slave Fiction and Public History - From Slavery to the Enslaved
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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Professional historians, schools, colleges, and universities are
not alone in shaping higher-order understanding of history. The
central thesis of this book is the belief historical fiction in
text and film shape attitudes towards an understanding of history
as it moves the focus from slavery to the enslaved—from the
institution to the personal, families and feminist accounts. In a
broader sense, this contributes to a public history. In part, using
the quickly growing corpus of neo-slave counterfactual narratives,
this book examines the notion of the emerging slavery public
history, and the extent to which this is defined by literature,
film, and other forms of artistic expression, rather than
non-fiction—popular or scholarly—and education in history in
the school systems. Inter alia, this book looks to the validity of
historical fiction in print or in film as a way of understanding
history. A focal point of this book is the hypothesis that
neo-slave narratives—supported by selective triangulated readings
and viewings of scholarly works and nonfiction—have assisted
greatly in reshaping the historiography of antebellum slavery, and
scholarly historians followed in the wake of these developments.
Essentially, this has meant a re-shaping of the historiography with
a focus from slavery to that of the enslaved. Moreover, it has
opened new vistas for a public history, devoid of top-down
authoritative scholarship. An important and provocative read for
students and scholars interested in understanding the history of
slavery, its harrowing effects, and how it was culturally defined.
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Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Series: |
Routledge Studies in Cultural History |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
First published: |
2024 |
Authors: |
Grant Rodwell
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
224 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-245127-5 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-03-245127-0 |
Barcode: |
9781032451275 |
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