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Slavery as depicted in literature and culture is examined in this
wide-ranging collection. On 25 March 1807, the bill for the
abolition of the Slave Trade within the British colonies was passed
by an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, becoming law
from 1 May. This new collection of essays marks this crucialbut
conflicted historical moment and its troublesome legacies. They
discuss the literary and cultural manifestations of slavery,
abolition and emancipation from the eighteenth century to the
present day, addressing such subjects and issues as: the
relationship between Christian and Islamic forms of slavery and the
polemical and scholarly debates these have occasioned; the visual
representations of the moment of emancipation; the representation
of slave rebellion; discourses of race and slavery; memory and
slavery; and captivity and slavery. Among the writers and thinkers
discussed are: Frantz Fanon, William Earle Jr, Olaudah Equiano,
Charlotte Smith, Caryl Phillips, Bryan Edwards,Elizabeth Marsh, as
well as a wide range of other thinkers, writers and artists. The
volume also contains the hitherto unpublished text of an essay by
the naturalist Henry Smeathman, Oeconomy of the Slave Ship.
Contributors: GEORGE BOULUKOS, DEIRDRE COLEMAN, MARAROULA JOANNOU,
GERALD MACLEAN, FELICITY NUSSBAUM, DIANA PATON, SARA SALIH, LINCOLN
SHLENSKY, MARCUS WOOD
The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of
Brazil's literary giants-Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and
Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through
the 1888 abolition of slavery. Assis was Brazil's most experimental
novelist; Alves was a Romantic poet with passionate liberationist
politics, popularly known as "the poet of the slaves"; and da Cunha
is known for the masterpiece Os Sertoes (The Backlands), a work of
genius that remains strangely neglected in the scholarship of
transatlantic slavery. Wood finds that all three writers responded
to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their
counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has
typically been depicted as a moment of closure. He ends by setting
up a wider literary context for his core authors by introducing a
comparative study of their great literary abolitionist predecessors
Luis Gonzaga Pinto da Gama and Joaquim Nabuco. The Black Butterfly
is a revolutionary text that insists Brazilian culture has always
refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath. Brazilian
slavery thus emerges as a living legacy subject to continual
renegotiation and reinvention.
The Black Butterfly focuses on the slavery writings of three of
Brazil's literary giants-Machado de Assis, Castro Alves, and
Euclides da Cunha. These authors wrote in the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries, as Brazil moved into and then through
the 1888 abolition of slavery. Assis was Brazil's most experimental
novelist; Alves was a Romantic poet with passionate liberationist
politics, popularly known as "the poet of the slaves"; and da Cunha
is known for the masterpiece Os Sertoes (The Backlands), a work of
genius that remains strangely neglected in the scholarship of
transatlantic slavery. Wood finds that all three writers responded
to the memory of slavery in ways that departed from their
counterparts in Europe and North America, where emancipation has
typically been depicted as a moment of closure. He ends by setting
up a wider literary context for his core authors by introducing a
comparative study of their great literary abolitionist predecessors
Luis Gonzaga Pinto da Gama and Joaquim Nabuco. The Black Butterfly
is a revolutionary text that insists Brazilian culture has always
refused a clean break between slavery and its aftermath. Brazilian
slavery thus emerges as a living legacy subject to continual
renegotiation and reinvention.
Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822 focuses on the work produced collaboratively between 1816 and 1822 by the poet and radical journalist William Hone and the brilliant young graphic satirist George Cruikshank. It shows how both men drew on their experience in the gutter press and advertising industry to produce satire which dissolves distinctions between literature and trash, art and advertising, and politics and propaganda. The book also sheds new light on the relations between popular political authors and graphic artists and the major Romantic writers of the period.
Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of English from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Marcus Wood writes from the conviction that slavery was, and still is, a dilemma for everyone in England, and seeks to explain why English society has constructed Atlantic slavery in the way it has.
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