The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World

ISBN-13: 9781108490733 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 254 str.

Andrew Kettler

Opis

In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic, gendered, and class assemblies due to an economic necessity that needed certain bodies to be defined as excremental. African subjects were defined as scented objects, appropriated as filthy to create ownership through forceful sensory discourse.

Recenzje

'Kettler's book takes us on a journey through the smells of the Atlantic slave trade … [it] should also have a much wider influence beyond the bounds of history. Scholars in sensory studies, a highly interdisciplinary field, will find this work a rewarding read … this is an important book and one that, even without the generous pricing by Cambridge University Press, should find a place on many a historian's and sensory scholar's (physical or virtual) bookshelf.' William Tullett, H-Early-America

Spis treści

Introduction. Pecunia non olet; 1. The primal scene: ethnographic wonder and aromatic discourse; 2. Triangle trading on the pungency of race; 3. Ephemeral Africa: essentialized odors and the slave ship; 4. 'The sweet scent of vengeance': olfactory resistance in the Atlantic world; Conclusion. Race, nose, truth.