Blind Memory

Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-92697-3
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

Throughout this important volume, the author underscores two vital themes: one, that visual presentation of slavery in England and America has been utterly dishonest to its subject, and the other a meditation on whether the ruptures of the slave experience - middle passage, bondage, and torture -- can be adequately represented and remembered.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wood, Marcus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. The irrecoverable: representing the 'middle passage'

3. Rhetoric and the runaway: the iconography of slave escape in England and America

4. Beyond the cover: Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery as global entertainment

5. Representing pain and describing torture: slavery, punishment and martyrology

6. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marcus Wood is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Sussex. His previous works include Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1820.