Slavery and the Politics of Place: Representing the Colonial Caribbean, 1770-1833

ISBN-13: 9781107438163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 280 str.

Elizabeth A. Bohls

Opis

This book analyzes representations of the places of British slavery - Africa, the Caribbean, and Britain - in writings by planters, slaves and travellers.

Recenzje

'Bohls' wide-reaching analysis of multiple genres by a variety of authors convincingly makes the case that the politics of place played a crucial role in constructing the West Indian colonies in the British imagination … Bohls makes a valuable contribution by examining both sides of the debate, situating slavery within the project of empire, and showing how writers and artists from both camps made use of Romantic aesthetics to argue for or against slavery.' Lisa Ann Robertson, Journal of Romanticism

Spis treści

Introduction: captive spaces; 1. The planter picturesque; 2. Stedman's Tropics: the mercenary as naturalist; 3. Colonial history and Atlantic geography; 4. Equiano's politics of place: from roots to routes; 5. At home with the 'Blackies': Janet Schaw and Maria Nugent; 6. A long way from home: the history of Mary Prince; Bibliography.