Representing the Body of the Slave

by Jane Gardner (Editor), Thomas Wiedemann (Editor)

Overview

From the ancient world through to modern times the bodies of slaves have been represented in literature, documentary and personal narrative writing, and in art. This volume presents evidence of the past sins of mankind in both art and literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714682884
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/31/2002
Series:	Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

University of Nottingham., Universities of Reading and Nottingham.

Table of Contents

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.