Representing the Body of the Slave

ISBN-13: 9780714653518 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 206 str.

Thomas Wiedemann; Jane Gardner

Opis

How the bodies of slaves are pictured in art and written or spoken about is revealing of the attitudes of those who were depicting them, often with the intention of influencing the attitudes of others. Slaves could be presented as inferior to free people, and almost subhuman. Conversely, emphasis could be laid upon their essential humanity and even nobility.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

University of Nottingham., Universities of Reading and Nottingham.